solstitium

Latin

Etymology

From sōl +‎ sistō +‎ -ium, perfect passive participle of stō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /soːlˈsti.ti.um/, [s̠oːɫ̪ˈs̠t̪ɪt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /solˈstit.t͡si.um/, [solˈst̪it̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

sōlstitium n (genitive sōlstitiī or sōlstitī); second declension

1. summer solstice
2. summer (hottest part of the year)
3. solstice

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sōlstitium	sōlstitia
Genitive	sōlstitiī sōlstitī1	sōlstitiōrum
Dative	sōlstitiō	sōlstitiīs
Accusative	sōlstitium	sōlstitia
Ablative	sōlstitiō	sōlstitiīs
Vocative	sōlstitium	sōlstitia

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

Descendants

• → Old French: solstice (learned)
  • French: solstice
  • → Middle English: solstice
    • English: solstice
• → German: Solstitium (learned)
• → Italian: solstizio (learned)
• → Portuguese: solstício (learned)
• → Romanian: solstițiu (learned)
• → Spanish: solsticio (learned)

Further reading

• “solstitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “solstitium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• solstitium 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)
• solstitium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.