solatium
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solatium (countable and uncountable, plural solatia)
- (law) A form of compensation for emotional rather than physical or financial harm.
- (figurative) Intangible or emotional compensation.
- "But Italian cabmen who are engaged by the hour regard the long waits beneath shady trees as a solatium for the reduced fare." C. Lewis Hind, The Education of an Artist (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1906, page 160).
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compensation for emotional harm
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Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /soːˈlaː.ti.um/, [s̠oːˈɫ̪äːt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /soˈlat.t͡si.um/, [soˈlät̪ː͡s̪ium]
Noun edit
sōlātium n (genitive sōlātiī or sōlātī); second declension
- Alternative form of sōlācium
Declension edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
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Nominative | sōlātium | sōlātia |
Genitive | sōlātiī sōlātī1 |
sōlātiōrum |
Dative | sōlātiō | sōlātiīs |
Accusative | sōlātium | sōlātia |
Ablative | sōlātiō | sōlātiīs |
Vocative | sōlātium | sōlātia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
References edit
- “solatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- solatium 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)
- solatium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.