Latin edit

Etymology edit

From sōl +‎ sistō +‎ -ium, perfect passive participle of stō.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

sōlstitium n (genitive sōlstitiī or sōlstitī); second declension

  1. summer solstice
  2. summer (hottest part of the year)
  3. solstice

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sōlstitium sōlstitia
Genitive sōlstitiī
sōlstitī1
sōlstitiōrum
Dative sōlstitiō sōlstitiīs
Accusative sōlstitium sōlstitia
Ablative sōlstitiō sōlstitiīs
Vocative sōlstitium sōlstitia

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

Descendants edit

Further reading edit

  • solstitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • solstitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • solstitium 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)
  • solstitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.