sollicitudo

Latin

Etymology

By haplology, from sollicitus +‎ -tūdō.

Noun

sollicitūdō f (genitive sollicitūdinis); third declension

1. anxiety, worry, concern, uneasiness

   Synonym: cūra

2. watchful concern, solicitude
   1. (Late Latin) responsibility
3. anxious care or attention, painstakingness

   Synonyms: cūra, cūrātiō, cultūra, tūtēla

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sollicitūdō	sollicitūdinēs
Genitive	sollicitūdinis	sollicitūdinum
Dative	sollicitūdinī	sollicitūdinibus
Accusative	sollicitūdinem	sollicitūdinēs
Ablative	sollicitūdine	sollicitūdinibus
Vocative	sollicitūdō	sollicitūdinēs

Descendants

• Catalan: sol·licitud
• Galician: solicitude
• Italian: sollecitudine
• Occitan: sollicitud
• Old French: sollicitude
  • French: sollicitude
  • Middle English: solicitude
    • English: solicitude
• Portuguese: solicitude
• Romanian: solicitudine
• Spanish: solicitud

References

• “sollicitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sollicitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sollicitudo 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)
• sollicitudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to be vexed, mortified, anxious: in aegritudine, sollicitudine esse
    
  • to be vexed, mortified, anxious: aegritudine, sollicitudine affici
    
  • something harasses me, makes me anxious: aliquid me sollicitat, me sollicitum habet, mihi sollicitudini est, mihi sollicitudinem affert