sollicitus

Latin

Alternative forms

• sōlicitus

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɔlˈlɪ.kɪ.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [solˈliː.t͡ʃi.tus]

Adjective

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

1. thoroughly moved, agitated or disturbed; restless, unceasing
   • 66 BCE, Cicero, Pro Cluentio 69.198:

     Difficile dictū est quam sint sollicitī, quam labōrent.

     It is hard to express how troubled they are, how much they are in distress.

2. (of mental afflictions) troubled, engaged, upset, disturbed, anxious, solicitous; afflicted

   Synonym: perturbātus

3. (idiomatic) worried

   Nōlī sollicitus esse!

   Don't worry!

   • 166 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Andria 268–270:

     MȲSIS: Labōrat ē dolōre, atque ex hōc misera sollicitast, diem / quia ōlim in hunc sunt cōnstitūtae nūptiae. Tum autem hoc timet, / nē dēserās sē.

     MYSIS: She is suffering from the pain [of childbirth], and in addition to that the poor [woman] is worried, since it is the day on which they have already arranged for [your] wedding [to another]. Then, moreover, she is afraid of this: that you might abandon her.
     (sollicitast is a syncopated form of sollicita est)

4. excited, passionate
5. very careful for, concerned in, punctilious, particular about

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	sollicitus	sollicita	sollicitum		sollicitī	sollicitae	sollicita
genitive	sollicitī	sollicitae	sollicitī		sollicitōrum	sollicitārum	sollicitōrum
dative	sollicitō	sollicitae	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