solacium

Latin

Alternative forms

• sōlātium

Etymology

From sōlor (“to comfort, console, solace”) +‎ -āx +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /soːˈlaː.ki.um/, [s̠oːˈɫ̪äːkiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /soˈla.t͡ʃi.um/, [soˈläːt͡ʃium]

Noun

sōlācium n (genitive sōlāciī or sōlācī); second declension

1. 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 [...]

2. soothing, assuaging
3. (law) compensation, indemnification

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	sōlācium	sōlācia
genitive	sōlāciī sōlācī1	sōlāciōrum
dative	sōlāciō	sōlāciīs
accusative	sōlācium	sōlācia
ablative	sōlāciō	sōlāciīs
vocative	sōlācium	sōlācia

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

Related terms

• sōlāciolum
• sōlāmen
• sōlāmentum
• sōlātor

Descendants

• Old French: solas, solaz, sollas, soulas
  • French: soulas (archaic)
  • → English: solace
  • → Irish: sólás
  • → Middle Dutch: solas
    • Dutch: soelaas
  • → Scottish Gaelic: sòlas
• → Italian: sollazzo, sollaccio
• Old Occitan: solatz
  • Catalan: solaç
  • → Old Galician-Portuguese: solaz
    • Galician: solaz
    • Portuguese: solaz
  • → Spanish: solaz
• → Sicilian: suḍḍazzu
• → Spanish: solacio

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^[1], 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^[2], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “solacium”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 12: Sk–š, page 32
• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “solacium”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 607