sollicitus

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

  1. Thoroughly moved, agitated or disturbed; restless, unceasing.
    Difficile dictū est quam sint sollicitī, quam labōrent.
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  2. (of mental afflictions) Troubled, engaged, upset, disturbed, anxious, solicitous; afflicted.
    Synonym: perturbātus
  3. (idiomatic) Worried
    Nōlī sollicitus esse!
    Don't worry!
    • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 268–270:
      MȲSIS: Labōrat ē dolōre, atque ex hōc misera sollicitast, diem / quia ōlim in hunc sunt cōnstitūtae nūptiae. Tum autem hoc timet, / nē dēserās sē.
      MYSIS: She is suffering from the pain [of childbirth], and in addition to that the poor [woman] is worried, since it is the day on which they have already arranged for [your] wedding [to another]. Then, moreover, she is afraid of this: that you might abandon her.
      (sollicitast is a syncopated form of sollicita est)
  4. Excited, passionate.
  5. Very careful for, concerned in, punctilious, particular about.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

singular plural
masculine feminine neuter masculine feminine neuter
nominative sollicitus sollicita sollicitum sollicitī sollicitae sollicita
genitive sollicitī sollicitae sollicitī sollicitōrum sollicitārum sollicitōrum
dative sollicitō sollicitae sollicitō sollicitīs
accusative sollicitum sollicitam sollicitum sollicitōs sollicitās sollicita
ablative sollicitō sollicitā sollicitō sollicitīs
vocative sollicite sollicita sollicitum sollicitī sollicitae sollicita

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Catalan: sol·lícit
  • → English: solicitous
  • Italian: sollecito
  • Portuguese: solícito
  • Spanish: solícito

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[1], 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
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