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Latin
Etymology 1
Traditionally from sollus (“whole, entire”) + annus (“year”), but the dissimilation within a geminate this requires is bizarre. Szemerényi proposes an old middle participle of soleo but has difficulty accounting for the geminate ll. Nussbaum offers sollus + epulum (“feast, banquet”), taking the latter component to have originally meant "ritual", with dissimilation ll...l > ll...n. [1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
sollemnis (neuter sollemne, comparative sollemnior, adverb sollemniter); third-declension two-termination adjective
- yearly, annual
- established, appointed, fixed
- common, usual, customary, ordinary, ritual, traditional
- Synonyms: ūsuālis, ōrdinārius, cotīdiānus
- religious, solemn, ceremonial; festive
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
Inflected form of sollemne (“religious or solemn rite, ceremony”).
Noun
sollemnis
- genitive singular of sollemne
References
- “sollemnis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sollemnis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sollemnis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Nussbaum, Alan J. 1997, "The 'Saussure Effect' in Latin and Italic". In Lubotsky, Alexander, "Sound law and analogy: papers in honor of Robert S.P. Beekes on the occasion of his 60th birthday".