solstitium

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [soːɫˈstɪ.ti.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [solˈstit.t͡si.um]

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).

	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

• → Albanian: solstiku
• → Asturian: solsticiu
• → Basque: solstizio
• → Catalan: solstici
• → Franco-Provençal: solstiço
• → Friulian: solstizi
• → Galician: solsticio
• → German: Solstitium
• → Italian: solstizio
• → Occitan: solstici
• → Old French: solstice
  • French: solstice
    • Haitian Creole: sòlstis
    • → Romanian: solstițiu
  • → Middle English: solstice
    • English: solstice
• → Portuguese: solstício
• → Serbo-Croatian: sòlstīcīj / со̀лстӣцӣј
• → Sicilian: solstìtziu
• → Spanish: solsticio

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, 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.