soliloquium

Latin

Etymology

From sōlus (“alone”) +‎ loquor (“to speak”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /soː.liˈlo.kʷi.um/, [s̠oːlʲɪˈɫ̪ɔkʷiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /so.liˈlo.kwi.um/, [soliˈlɔːkwium]

Noun

sōliloquium n (genitive sōliloquiī or sōliloquī); second declension

1. soliloquy

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sōliloquium	sōliloquia
Genitive	sōliloquiī sōliloquī1	sōliloquiōrum
Dative	sōliloquiō	sōliloquiīs
Accusative	sōliloquium	sōliloquia
Ablative	sōliloquiō	sōliloquiīs
Vocative	sōliloquium	sōliloquia

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

Descendants

• Catalan: soliloqui
• → English: soliloquy
• → French: soliloque
• → German: Soliloquium
• Galician: soliloquio
• Italian: soliloquio
• → Romanian: solilocviu, soliloc

References

• “soliloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• soliloquium 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)
• soliloquium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.