solitudo
Appearance
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sōlus (“alone; solitary, deserted”) + -tūdō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /soː.liˈtuː.doː/, [s̠oːlʲɪˈt̪uːd̪oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /so.liˈtu.do/, [soliˈt̪uːd̪o]
Noun
[edit]sōlitūdō f (genitive sōlitūdinis); third declension
- An instance of being alone; loneliness, solitariness, solitude, privacy
- A lonely place; desert, wilderness
- A state of want, destitution, deprivation
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | sōlitūdō | sōlitūdinēs |
genitive | sōlitūdinis | sōlitūdinum |
dative | sōlitūdinī | sōlitūdinibus |
accusative | sōlitūdinem | sōlitūdinēs |
ablative | sōlitūdine | sōlitūdinibus |
vocative | sōlitūdō | sōlitūdinēs |
Related terms
[edit]Related terms
Descendants
[edit]- Catalan: solitud
- English: solitude
- French: solitude
- Italian: solitudine
- Portuguese: solidão, solitude
- Romanian: solitudine
- Spanish: soledumbre, solitud
References
[edit]- “solitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “solitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- solitudo 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)
- solitudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to live in solitude: in solitudine vivere (Fin. 3. 20. 65)
- to live in solitude: in solitudine vivere (Fin. 3. 20. 65)