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Latin
Etymology
From sollicitus.
Pronunciation
Verb
sollicitō (present infinitive sollicitāre, perfect active sollicitāvī, supine sollicitātum); first conjugation
- to disturb, disquiet, stir, agitate, distress, harass, vex, make anxious
- Synonyms: turbō, perturbō, agitō, īnfestō, angō, concitō, disturbō, fatīgō, irrītō, lacessō, stimulō, ēvertō, peragō, occīdō, moveō, agō, versō, ūrō
- Antonym: cōnsōlor
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.379–380:
- “Scīlicet is Superīs labor est, ea cūra quiētōs / sollicitat. .”
- “Why, of course this is work for Superior Powers — concern disturbs their repose!”
(Dido mocks the claim that Aeneas is only following divine orders.)
- to solicit, tempt, seduce, attract, induce
- Synonyms: indūcō, sēdūcō, alliciō, dēdūcō, persuādeō, pelliciō, perdūcō, capiō
- to rouse, excite, incite
- Synonyms: excitō, īnstīgō, īnstinguō, exciō, perpellō, concieō, percieō, cieō, urgeō, concitō, impellō, īnflammō, moveō, mōlior, adhortor, incendō, ērigō
- Antonyms: domō, lēniō, sōpiō, sēdō, dēlēniō, restinguō, plācō, coerceō, mītigō, commītigō, ēlevō, levō, allevō, alleviō
Usage notes
The passive sollicitor can be used as a deponent verb that means "to worry" in the intransitive sense.
Conjugation
1The present passive infinitive in -ier is a rare poetic form which is attested.
Descendants
Adjective
sollicitō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of sollicitus
References
- “sollicito”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sollicito”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sollicito in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- something harasses me, makes me anxious: aliquid me sollicitat, me sollicitum habet, mihi sollicitudini est, mihi sollicitudinem affert
- anxiety troubles and torments one: cura sollicitat angitque aliquem
- to stir up the lower classes: plebem concitare, sollicitare