sollicitatio

Latin

Etymology

From sollicitō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sol.li.kiˈtaː.ti.oː/, [s̠ɔlːʲɪkɪˈt̪äːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sol.li.t͡ʃiˈtat.t͡si.o/, [solːit͡ʃiˈt̪ät̪ː͡s̪io]

Noun

sollicitātiō f (genitive sollicitātiōnis); third declension

1. vexation, anxiety
2. incitement, instigation
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 2:

     Quam multorum eloquentia et cotidiana ostentandi ingenii sollicitatio sanguinem educit!

     From how many do eloquence and the daily straining to display their powers draw forth blood!

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sollicitātiō	sollicitātiōnēs
genitive	sollicitātiōnis	sollicitātiōnum
dative	sollicitātiōnī	sollicitātiōnibus
accusative	sollicitātiōnem	sollicitātiōnēs
ablative	sollicitātiōne	sollicitātiōnibus
vocative	sollicitātiō	sollicitātiōnēs

Related terms

• sollicitō

Descendants

• Middle French: sollicitation
  • French: sollicitation
    • → Dutch: sollicitatie
  • → English: solicitation
• Italian: sollecitazione
• Portuguese: solicitação
• Spanish: solicitación

References

• “sollicitatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sollicitatio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sollicitatio in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• sollicitatio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.