sollicitus

Latin

Alternative forms

• sōlicitus

Etymology

From sollus (“whole, entire”) + cieō (“move, stir, shake”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /solˈli.ki.tus/, [s̠ɔlˈlʲɪkɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /solˈli.t͡ʃi.tus/, [solˈliːt͡ʃit̪us]

Adjective

sollicitus (feminine sollicita, neuter sollicitum, comparative sollicitior); first/second-declension adjective

1. Thoroughly moved, agitated or disturbed; restless, unceasing.
2. (of mental afflictions) Troubled, engaged, upset, disturbed, anxious, solicitous; afflicted.

   Synonym: perturbātus

3. (idiomatic) Worried

   Noli sollicitus esse

   Don't worry

4. Excited, passionate.
5. Very careful for, concerned in, punctilious, particular about.

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	sollicitus	sollicita	sollicitum		sollicitī	sollicitae	sollicita
Genitive	sollicitī	sollicitae	sollicitī		sollicitōrum	sollicitārum	sollicitōrum
Dative	sollicitō		sollicitō		sollicitīs
Accusative	sollicitum	sollicitam	sollicitum		sollicitōs	sollicitās	sollicita
Ablative	sollicitō	sollicitā	sollicitō		sollicitīs
Vocative	sollicite	sollicita	sollicitum		sollicitī	sollicitae	sollicita

Derived terms

• sollicitē
• sollicitō
• sollicitūdō

 

Related terms

• cieō
• sollemnis
• sollers
• sollicitātiō
• sollicitātor
• solliferreum
• sollus

 

Descendants

• Catalan: sol·lícit
• → English: solicitous
• Italian: sollecito
• Portuguese: solícito
• Spanish: solícito

References

• “sollicitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sollicitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sollicitus 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: sollicitum esse
    
  • something harasses me, makes me anxious: aliquid me sollicitat, me sollicitum habet, mihi sollicitudini est, mihi sollicitudinem affert