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Latin
Etymology
From sōlor (“to comfort, console, solace”) + -āx + -ium.
Pronunciation
Noun
sōlācium n (genitive sōlāciī or sōlācī); second declension
- comfort, relief, solace
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 1.441–442:
- Intāctae fuerātis avēs, sōlācia rūris,
adsuētum silvīs innocuumque genus - You birds lived untouched, as solaces of the countryside,
accustomed to the woods, and a harmless race
- soothing, assuaging
- (law) compensation, indemnification
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Descendants
References
- “solacium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “solacium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- solacium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to comfort: solacium praebere
- to solace oneself with the thought..: hoc solacio frui, uti
- I console myself with..: hoc (illo) solacio me consōlor
- solacium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “solacium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 12: Sk–š, page 32
- Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “solacium”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 607