solstice

English

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Solstice

Illumination of Earth by Sun at the southern solstice.

Etymology

From Latin solstitium, from sol (“sun”) + stitium (“stand”) (as in English solar and resist), from sistō (“I stand still”), both from Proto-Indo-European roots.

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈsɒl.stɪs/

Noun

solstice (plural solstices)

One of the two points in the ecliptic at which the sun is furthest from the celestial equator. This corresponds to one of two days in the year when the day is either longest or shortest.
- 1924, Aristotle, Metaphysics. Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: <http://www.classicallibrary.org/aristotle/metaphysics/>. Book 1, Part 2.
  For all men begin, as we said, by wondering that things are as they are, as they do about self‐moving marionettes, or about the solstices or the incommensurability of the diagonal of a square with the side;

Derived terms

Related terms

equinox

Translations

point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun

Armenian: արևադարձ (hy) (arevadardz)
Bulgarian: слънцестоéне (bg) (slǎncestoéne) n
Catalan: solstici (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 至日 (cmn) (zhìrì), 至點 (cmn), 至点 (cmn) (zhìdiǎn), 冬至 (cmn) (dōngzhì) (winter solstice), 夏至 (cmn) (xiàzhì) (summer solstice)
Czech: slunovrat (cs) m
Dutch: zonnewende (nl) f, zonnestilstand (nl) m
Esperanto: solstico (eo)
Finnish: päivänseisaus (fi)
French: solstice (fr) m
German: Sonnenwende (de) f
Greek: ηλιοστάσιο (el) (iliostásio) n
Hungarian: napforduló (hu)
Icelandic: sólstöður (is) f pl, sólhvörf (is) n pl

Irish: grianstad (ga) m
Italian: solstizio (it) m
Japanese: 冬至 (ja) (とうじ, tōji) (winter solstice), 夏至 (ja) (げし, geshi) (summer solstice)
Lithuanian: saulėgrįža (lt) f
Navajo: shá niighááh, shá niiltłʼah
Norwegian:
Bokmål: solverv (nb) n

Nynorsk: solkverv (nn) m
Polish: przesilenie n
Portuguese: solstício (pt) m
Romanian: solstițiu n, solstițiul verii n, solstițiul iernii n
Russian: солнцестояние (ru) (solncestojánije) n
Serbian: suncostaj m
Spanish: solsticio (es) m
Swedish: sommarsolstånd (sv) (the longest day), vintersolstånd (sv) (the shortest day)