solitudo

Latin

Etymology

From sōlus (“alone; solitary, deserted”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /soː.liˈtuː.doː/, [s̠oːlʲɪˈt̪uːd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /so.liˈtu.do/, [soliˈt̪uːd̪o]

Noun

sōlitūdō f (genitive sōlitūdinis); third declension

1. An instance of being alone; loneliness, solitariness, solitude.
2. A lonely place; desert, wilderness.
3. A state of want, destitution, deprivation.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sōlitūdō	sōlitūdinēs
Genitive	sōlitūdinis	sōlitūdinum
Dative	sōlitūdinī	sōlitūdinibus
Accusative	sōlitūdinem	sōlitūdinēs
Ablative	sōlitūdine	sōlitūdinibus
Vocative	sōlitūdō	sōlitūdinēs

Related terms

Related terms

• sōlicanus
• sōliloquium
• sōlitāneus

• sōlitārius
• sōlitās
• sōlitātim

• sōlum
• sōlummodo
• sōlus

Descendants

• Catalan: solitud
• English: solitude
• French: solitude
• Italian: solitudine
• Portuguese: solidão, solitude
• Spanish: soledumbre

References

• “solitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “solitudo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• solitudo 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)
• solitudo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to live in solitude: in solitudine vivere (Fin. 3. 20. 65)