soliloquium
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sōlus (“alone”) + loquor (“to speak”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /soː.liˈlo.kʷi.um/, [s̠oːlʲɪˈɫ̪ɔkʷiʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /so.liˈlo.kwi.um/, [soliˈlɔːkwium]
Noun
[edit]sōliloquium n (genitive sōliloquiī or sōliloquī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| 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
[edit]- Catalan: soliloqui
- → English: soliloquy
- → French: soliloque
- → German: Soliloquium
- Galician: soliloquio
- Italian: soliloquio
- → Romanian: solilocviu, soliloc
References
[edit]- “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.