sollicitudo Latin · revision 30679

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=c. 250–184 BC, Plautus|origins=ine-pro *sol(h₂)-no-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''sollicitūdō''' ''f'' (genitive sollicitūdinis); third declension^(Wiktionary)

+ It is also spelled ''sōlicitūdō''.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is formed from [[m|la|sollicitus|t=troubled, anxious]] with the suffix [[m|la|-tūdō]], shortened by haplology.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan explains ⟨sollicitus⟩ as “wholly stirred”, from [[m|la|sollus|t=whole]] and ⟨citus⟩, the participle of [[m|la|cieō|t=to set in motion]].^(de Vaan 2008) He traces ⟨sollus⟩ to [[itc-pro|*solno-|t=whole]] and [[ine-pro|*sol(h₂)-no-]], cognate with [[osc|sullus|t=all]], [[cy|holl|t=all]] and [[sga|slán|t=whole, sound]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Plautus, ''Miles gloriosus'': ''eam pudet mē tibi in senectā obicere sollicitūdinem'', “I am ashamed to cause you that worry in my old age”.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Sollicitūdō'' is disquiet of mind, anxiety, uneasiness, with a genitive of what causes it (''sollicitūdō perīculōrum''), and a particular worry: Terence urges someone to drop a false anxiety that torments him.^(OLD 2012) It also means watchful concern for someone, solicitude (Curtius), and anxious care or painstakingness in a task: Quintilian wonders whether carelessness or over-anxious care is worse in prose rhythm.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short quote a definition of it as ''aegritūdō cum cōgitātiōne'', “distress joined with brooding”.^(Lewis & Short 1879)

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+ Döderlein groups [[cūra]], ''sollicitūdō'' and [[angor]] as disturbances of mind about a coming evil.^(Döderlein 1874) In Late Latin it also meant responsibility,^(Wiktionary) and in Church and medieval Latin it is care and attention as well as worry.^(Stelten 1995)^(Niermeyer 1976) English ''solicitude'' (early 15th century) came from Old French and directly from Latin.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus of a worry in old age.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of a false anxiety.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian of painstaking care.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * early 15th century – English [[m|en|solicitude]].^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # [[m|en|anxiety]], worry, uneasiness; a particular worry.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Watchful concern, [[m|en|solicitude]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Anxious care, painstakingness.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Late Latin)'' [[m|en|responsibility]].^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Care, attention.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[sollicitus]]

+ * [[sollicitō]]

+ * [[sollus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}