solicitación

Forms

solicitación f (plural solicitaciones)^[1]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Latin sollicitātiō (“vexation; incitement”).^[2][1] Corominas lists it with solicitar, solicitud and solícito in the family of citar.^[3]

The Latin noun is formed from sollicitō (“to disturb, stir up”) with the suffix -tiō.^[4][1] The verb is from sollicitus (“agitated, anxious”), which Wiktionary explains as a compound of sollus (“whole”) and cieō (“to move, stir”).^[4][1] The same Latin word gives French sollicitation, Italian sollecitazione and Portuguese solicitação.^[1][5] Nascentes calls the Portuguese word semi-learned, and Houaiss first records it in 1708.^[6][7]

Earliest recorded meaning

The first record in the CDH is an anonymous document of 1449, which says that a siege was laid against the city a su instançia y prosecuçión e soliçitaçión “at his instance, pursuit and urging”.^[8] The sense is “urging, instigation”, close to one of the Latin senses, “incitement”.^[8][4]

Semantic evolution

In Latin the noun meant vexation or worry, and incitement to disloyalty or crime, including the seduction of a wife.^[4][9] In the 15th and 16th centuries Spanish used it mostly for the urging or request of a person of rank, in pairs such as instancia y solicitación in Hernando del Pulgar and Alonso de Santa Cruz.^[8] The sense “indecent advance” appears in 1587, in Fernando de Mena's translation of Heliodorus.^[8] In the Americas it is recorded from 1601 in Chile, in a case of improper touching, and in 1683 New Granada for the advances of Spanish men that Indian women resisted.^[10]

The Academy's dictionary of 1899 defines it simply as the action of soliciting and gives the Latin etymon, as the DLE still does.^[11][2] Moliner adds the sense of a temptation or attraction that draws one to spend money or to amuse oneself.^[12]

Timeline

• 1449 – first record, in an anonymous document: soliçitaçión.^[8]
• 1458 – Pero Díaz de Toledo writes á solicitacion é requesta vuestra “at your urging and request”.^[8]
• 1480–1484 – Hernando del Pulgar's chronicle of the Catholic Monarchs.^[8]
• 1587 – Fernando de Mena's translation of Heliodorus has the sense “indecent advance”.^[8]
• 1601 – the first record from the Americas, in Chile.^[10]
• 1899 – the Academy's dictionary defines it with the Latin etymon.^[11]

Meanings

Noun

1. The action of soliciting (solicitar); a request: Atendieron la solicitación de los vecinos.^[2][1][12]
2. A temptation or attraction that draws one to spend money or seek amusement: La ciudad ofrece demasiadas solicitaciones.^[12]

Related words

• solicitar
• solicitud
• solícito
• Latin sollicitātiō

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c Real Academia Española; Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española (2014–), Diccionario de la lengua española, 23rd ed., online version 23.8, https://dle.rae.es, p. s.v. solicitación
3. ^ Corominas, Joan; Pascual, José A. (1980–1991), Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico, 6 vols., Madrid: Gredos, p. 5, 295
4. ^ a b c d Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press
5. ^ Segura Munguía, Santiago (2001), Nuevo diccionario etimológico latín-español y de las voces derivadas, Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, p. 719
6. ^ Nascentes, Antenor (1966), Dicionário etimológico resumido, Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, p. s.v. solicitação
7. ^ Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. solicitação
8. ^ a b c d e f g h Real Academia Española (2013–), Corpus del Diccionario histórico de la lengua española (CDH), version 3.1, https://apps.rae.es/CNDHE, p. s.v. solicitación
9. ^ Lewis, Charlton T.; Short, Charles (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
10. ^ a b Boyd-Bowman, Peter (2003), Léxico hispanoamericano 1493–1993, ed. Ray Harris-Northall and John J. Nitti, New York: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, p. s.v. solicitación
11. ^ a b Real Academia Española (1899), Diccionario de la lengua castellana, 13th ed., Madrid: Imprenta de los Sres. Hernando y Compañía, p. 924
12. ^ a b c Moliner, María (2007), Diccionario de uso del español, 3rd ed., Madrid: Gredos, p. s.v. solicitación