solstice

English

Illumination of Earth by Sun at the southern solstice.

Etymology

From Middle English solstice, from Old French solstice, from Latin sōlstitium, from sōl (“sun”) + sistō (“stand still”, verb), both from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European roots.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɒl.stɪs/
• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑl.stɪs/, /ˈsɔl.stɪs/

Noun

solstice (plural solstices)

1. One of the two points in the ecliptic at which the sun is furthest from the celestial equator. This corresponds to one of two days in the year when the day is either longest or shortest.
   • 2010, Capt Sp Meek, The Solar Magnet

     The point at which the sun is nearest to the south pole we call the winter solstice, and the opposite point, the summer solstice.

Synonyms

• sunstead

Derived terms

• summer solstice
• winter solstice
• solstitial

Related terms

• equinox

Translations

point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun

• Arabic: اِنْقِلَاب شَمْسِيّ m (inqilāb šamsiyy)
• Armenian: արևադարձ (arewadarj)
• Belarusian: сонцастая́нне n (soncastajánnje)
• Bulgarian: слънцестое́не n (slǎncestoéne)
• Catalan: solstici (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 至日 (zh) (zhìrì), 至點／至点 (zh) (zhìdiǎn), 至点 (zh) (zhìdiǎn), 冬至 (zh) (dōngzhì) (winter solstice), 夏至 (zh) (xiàzhì) (summer solstice)

• Czech: slunovrat (cs) m
• Danish: solhverv (da) n
• Dutch: zonnewende (nl) f, zonnestilstand (nl) m
• Esperanto: solstico (eo)
• Estonian: pööripäev
• Finnish: päivänseisaus (fi)
• French: solstice (fr) m
• Georgian: ნაბუნიობა (nabunioba), მზებუდობა (mzebudoba)
• German: Sonnenwende (de) f
• Greek: ηλιοστάσιο (el) n (iliostásio)
• Hindi: अयनांत (hi) m (aynānt)
• Hungarian: napforduló (hu)
• Icelandic: sólstöður (is) f pl, sólhvörf n pl
• Irish: grianstad m
• Italian: solstizio (it) m
• Japanese: 冬至 (ja) (とうじ, tōji) (winter solstice), 夏至 (ja) (げし, geshi) (summer solstice)
• Korean: 지점 (ko) (jijeom), 동지 (ko) (dongji) (winter), 하지 (ko) (haji) (summer)
• Latin: solstitium n, brūma f (winter)
• Latvian: saulgrieži m pl
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• Lithuanian: saulėgrįža f
• Macedonian: сонцестој m (soncestoj)
• Malay: solstis
• Maori: takanga o te rā, hikumutu (winter solstice), Ihu o Takurua (winter), Ihu o Hineraumati (summer), te tuakaihautanga o Tamanuiterā
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Navajo: shá niighááh, shá niiltłʼah
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: solverv n

  Nynorsk: solkverv m

• Old English: midsumor m, sunstede m, sungihte n
• Persian: گشتن (fa) (gaštan), انقلاب (fa) (enγelāb)
• Polish: przesilenie (pl) n
• Portuguese: solstício (pt) m
• Romanian: solstițiu (ro) n, solstițiul verii n, solstițiul iernii n
• Russian: солнцестоя́ние (ru) n (solncestojánije)
• Sanskrit: अयनान्त (sa) m (ayanānta)
• Serbo-Croatian: suncostaj (sh) m, су̏нцоста̄ј m
• Slovak: slnovrat m
• Slovene: sónčev obràt m, solstícij m
• Spanish: solsticio (es) m
• Swedish: sommarsolstånd (sv) (the longest day), vintersolstånd (sv) (the shortest day), solstånd (sv) n
• Thai: มายัน (mayan)
• Tibetan: ཉི་མ་ལོག་ཡག (nyi ma log yag)
• Ukrainian: сонцестоя́ння (uk) n (soncestojánnja)
• Vietnamese: điểm chí

Anagrams

• isolects, scolites, solecist

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French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin solstitium

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sɔl.stis/
• Rhymes: -is

Noun

solstice m (plural solstices)

1. (astronomy) solstice

Derived terms

• solstice d’été
• solstice d’hiver

Further reading

• “solstice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin solstitium.

Noun

solstice oblique singular, m (oblique plural solstices, nominative singular solstices, nominative plural solstice)

1. (astronomy) solstice

Descendants

• English: solstice
• French: solstice