solitarius

Latin

Etymology

From sōlitās (“solitude, loneliness”), from sōlus (“alone”); sōlitās +‎ -ārius.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [soː.lɪˈtaː.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [so.liˈtaː.ri.us]

Adjective

sōlitārius (feminine sōlitāria, neuter sōlitārium, comparative magis sōlitārius, superlative maximē sōlitārius); first/second-declension adjective

1. solitary
2. lonely, lonesome

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

	singular				plural
	masculine	feminine	neuter		masculine	feminine	neuter
nominative	sōlitārius	sōlitāria	sōlitārium		sōlitāriī	sōlitāriae	sōlitāria
genitive	sōlitāriī	sōlitāriae	sōlitāriī		sōlitāriōrum	sōlitāriārum	sōlitāriōrum
dative	sōlitāriō	sōlitāriae	sōlitāriō		sōlitāriīs
accusative	sōlitārium	sōlitāriam	sōlitārium		sōlitāriōs	sōlitāriās	sōlitāria
ablative	sōlitāriō	sōlitāriā	sōlitāriō		sōlitāriīs
vocative	sōlitārie	sōlitāria	sōlitārium		sōlitāriī	sōlitāriae	sōlitāria

Descendants

• Asturian: solteru
• → Asturian: solitariu
• Catalan: solter
• → Catalan: solitari
• Galician: solteiro
• → Galician: solitario
• → Italian: solitario
• → Middle English:
  • English: solitary
• → Old French: solitaire
  • French: solitaire
    • → English: solitaire
    • → Romanian: solitar
• Portuguese: solteiro
• → Portuguese: solitário
• Sicilian: suteru
• Spanish: soltero
• → Spanish: solitario

References

• “solitarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “solitarius”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "solitarius", 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)
• “solitarius”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to live a lonely life: vitam solitariam agere