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+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=Plautus|origins=la sōlor}}
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+ ==Pronunciation==
+ * IPA (Classical): [soːˈɫaː.ki.ũː]^(Wiktionary)
+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [soˈlaː.t͡ʃi.um]^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Forms==
+ '''sōlācium''' ''n'' (genitive sōlāciī or sōlācī); second declension^(Wiktionary)
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+ ==Etymology==
+ The OLD takes it apparently from [[m|la|*sōlax]], an adjective in [[m|la|-āx]] from [[solor|alt=sōlor]] “to comfort”, with [[m|la|-ium]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) The variant spelling is [[m|la|sōlātium]], which Georges rejects.^(OLD 2012)^(Georges 1913)
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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==
+ Köbler dates its first use to Plautus, c. 250–184 BC.^(Köbler 2010) Lucretius speaks of the comforts of sleep and of life.^(Lewis & Short 1879)
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+ ==Semantic evolution==
+ It meant relief in sorrow or misfortune, comfort, as when Cicero says studies give refuge and solace in adversity.^(OLD 2012)^(Gaffiot 2016) It was a consolation for a loss, or something that makes up for a disadvantage, as in Livy.^(OLD 2012) In legal texts it meant compensation, perhaps only in interpolated passages.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
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+ In medieval Latin it was help and assistance, and Köbler adds military service.^(DMLBS)^(Köbler 2010) English ''solace'' is recorded around 1300, through Old French ''solaz''.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Timeline==
+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus uses it.^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 96–55 BC – Lucretius speaks of the comforts of sleep.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero says studies give solace.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)
+ * c. 1300 – English ''solace'' is recorded.^(Etymonline)
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+ ==Meanings==
+ ===Noun===
+ # Comfort, relief, [[m|en|solace]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)
+ # A [[m|en|consolation]]; something that makes up for a loss.^(OLD 2012)
+ # ''(law)'' Compensation.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)
+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Help, assistance.^(DMLBS)
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+ ==Word family==
+ * [[sōlāciolum]]
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+ ==Related words==
+ * [[sōlāmen]]
+ * [[sōlāmentum]]
+ * [[sōlātor]]
+ * [[solor|alt=sōlor]]
+ * [[en|solace]]
+ * [[en|console]]
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+ ==References==
+ {{reflist}}