solstitium

Latin

Etymology

    From sōl +‎ sistō +‎ -ium, perfect passive participle of stō.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    sōlstitium n (genitive sōlstitiī or sōlstitī); second declension

    1. summer solstice
    2. summer (hottest part of the year)
    3. solstice

    Declension

    Second-declension noun (neuter).

    singular plural
    nominative sōlstitium sōlstitia
    genitive sōlstitiī
    sōlstitī1
    sōlstitiōrum
    dative sōlstitiō sōlstitiīs
    accusative sōlstitium sōlstitia
    ablative sōlstitiō sōlstitiīs
    vocative sōlstitium sōlstitia

    1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

    Descendants

    • ? Albanian: solstiku (learned)
    • Asturian: solsticiu (learned)
    • ? Basque: solstizio (learned)
    • Catalan: solstici (learned)
    • ? Franco-Provençal: solstiço (learned)
    • ? Friulian: solstizi (learned)
    • Galician: solsticio (learned)
    • German: Solstitium (learned)
    • Italian: solstizio (learned)
    • Occitan: solstici (learned)
    • Old French: solstice (learned)
    • Portuguese: solstício (learned)
    • Romanian: solstițiu (learned)
    • Serbo-Croatian: sòlstīcīj / со̀лстӣцӣј (learned)
    • ? Sicilian: solstìtziu (learned)
    • Spanish: solsticio (learned)

    Further reading

    • solstitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • solstitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • "solstitium", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
    • solstitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.