solium

Latin

Etymology

Believed to be an alteration of Old Latin *sodium, from Proto-Indo-European *sodyom (compare Old Irish suide (“seat”)), from *sed-.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈso.li.um/, [ˈs̠ɔlʲiʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈso.li.um/, [ˈsɔːlium]

Noun

solium n (genitive soliī or solī); second declension

1. seat, chair
2. throne, chair of state, official seat
3. (figuratively) rule, sway, dominion
4. tub, bathtub
5. stone coffin, sarcophagus

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	solium	solia
Genitive	soliī solī1	soliōrum
Dative	soliō	soliīs
Accusative	solium	solia
Ablative	soliō	soliīs
Vocative	solium	solia

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

Synonyms

• (seat, chair): sella, sedes

Descendants

• Ancient Greek: σόλιον (sólion)
• Italian: soglio
• Portuguese: sólio
• Welsh: sail

References

• “solium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “solium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• solium 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)
• solium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “solium”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “solium”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin