sollertia

Latin

Alternative forms

• sōlertia

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin sollus

Proto-Indo-European *h₂er-

Proto-Indo-European *h₂értis

Proto-Italic *artis

Latin ars

Latin sollers

Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós

Proto-Italic *-ijos

Proto-Italic *-ios

Old Latin -ios

Latin -ius

Latin -ia

Latin sollertia

From sollers + -ia (suffix forming abstract nouns).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɔlˈlɛr.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [solˈlɛr.t͡si.a]

Noun

sollertia f (genitive sollertiae); first declension

1. skill, shrewdness, ingenuity
2. dexterity, adroitness
3. resourcefulness

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sollertia	sollertiae
genitive	sollertiae	sollertiārum
dative	sollertiae	sollertiīs
accusative	sollertiam	sollertiās
ablative	sollertiā	sollertiīs
vocative	sollertia	sollertiae

References

• “sollertĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sollertia”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “sollertĭa”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,454/2.
• “sollertia” on pages 1,784–5 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)