solicitação

Forms

solicitação f (plural solicitações)^[1] Bluteau spells it sollicitaçaõ.^[2]

Etymology

It is borrowed from Latin sollicitātiō (“vexation; incitement”).^[3][4] Houaiss dates it to 1708.^[3] Nascentes calls it semi-learned.^[5] It is the noun of solicitar, which is recorded from the 15th century.^[6]

The same Latin noun is Spanish solicitación, French sollicitation and Italian sollecitazione.^[7][1]

The Latin noun is formed from sollicitō (“to disturb, harass; to incite”) with the suffix -tiō.^[8][1] The verb is from sollicitus (“agitated, anxious”), which is made of sollus (“whole”) and the participle of cieō (“to set in motion”).^[9][10][1] In Latin the noun meant vexation, and the incitement of someone to disloyalty or crime.^[8]

Earliest recorded meaning

Houaiss's first record is of 1708, with the sense "the act of soliciting".^[3] Bluteau's dictionary, from 1712, defines sollicitaçaõ as instigation, advice or impulse, with the Latin words sollicitatio, instigatio and impulsio.^[2]

Semantic evolution

The older sense was close to the Latin one: Bluteau's instigation or impulse, which Vieira repeats as instigation, counsel, impulse and diligence.^[2][11] The sense "insistent request" is the main one today, beside a temptation or appeal, as in as solicitações da carne.^[3][12] In engineering and physics the word names an outside cause, such as a force or a change of temperature, that alters the stress in a body or deforms it.^[3][12][13]

Timeline

• 1708 – Houaiss's first record.^[3]
• 1712 – Bluteau enters sollicitaçaõ as instigation.^[2]
• 1724 – solicitação in a private letter.^[14]

Meanings

Noun

1. The act of requesting; a request: Recebemos a sua solicitação ontem.^[3][12][1]
2. An insistent request; entreaty, plea.^[3][12]
3. Something that attracts or tempts; an appeal, a temptation.^[3][13]
4. (engineering, physics) An outside cause, such as a load or a change of temperature, that alters the stress in a body or deforms it.^[3][12][13]

Related words

• solicitar
• solícito
• solicitude
• Latin sollicitātiō
• Spanish solicitación

References

1. ^ a b c d e f g Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d Bluteau, Raphael (1712–1728), Vocabulario portuguez e latino, 8 vols. + 2 supplement vols., Coimbra / Lisboa (CLP transcription, Universidade de Aveiro), p. s.v. sollicitação
3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. solicitação
4. ^ Cunha, Antônio Geraldo da (2010), Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa, 4th ed., Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon, p. s.v. solicitar
5. ^ Nascentes, Antenor (1966), Dicionário etimológico resumido, Rio de Janeiro: Instituto Nacional do Livro, p. s.v. solicitação
6. ^ Houaiss, Antônio; Villar, Mauro de Salles (2001), Dicionário Houaiss da língua portuguesa, Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva, p. s.v. solicitar
7. ^ 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
8. ^ a b Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. s.v. sollicitātiō
9. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. s.v. sollicitō
10. ^ Glare, P. G. W., ed. (2012), Oxford Latin Dictionary, 2nd ed., Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. s.v. sollicitus
11. ^ Vieira, Frei Domingos (1871–1874), Grande Diccionario Portuguez ou Thesouro da lingua portugueza, 5 vols., Porto: Ernesto Chardron e Bartholomeu H. de Moraes, p. 5, 575
12. ^ a b c d e Ferreira, Aurélio Buarque de Holanda, Novo dicionário Aurélio da língua portuguesa, digital edition, p. s.v. solicitação
13. ^ a b c Academia das Ciências de Lisboa, Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa, revised online edition (2023–) of the Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea (2001), https://dicionario.acad-ciencias.pt, p. s.v. solicitação
14. ^ CLUL (ed.) (2014), P.S. Post Scriptum: Arquivo Digital de Escrita Quotidiana em Portugal e Espanha na Época Moderna, Lisboa: Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, http://ps.clul.ul.pt, p. s.v. solicitação