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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From sollus (“whole, entire”) + cieō (“move, stir, shake”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
sollicitus (feminine sollicita, neuter sollicitum, comparative sollicitior); first/second-declension adjective
- Thoroughly moved, agitated or disturbed; restless, unceasing.
- (of mental afflictions) Troubled, engaged, upset, disturbed, anxious, solicitous; afflicted.
- Synonym: perturbātus
- (idiomatic) Worried
Noli sollicitus esse- Don't worry
- Excited, passionate.
- Very careful for, concerned in, punctilious, particular about.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
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References
- “sollicitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sollicitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sollicitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to be vexed, mortified, anxious: sollicitum esse
- something harasses me, makes me anxious: aliquid me sollicitat, me sollicitum habet, mihi sollicitudini est, mihi sollicitudinem affert