Latin

Noun

sōlitūdō f ‎(genitive sōlitūdinis); third declension

1. An instance of being alone; loneliness, solitariness, solitude.
2. A lonely place; desert, wilderness.
3. A state of want, destitution, deprivation.

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

Descendants

• Catalan: solitud
• English: solitude
• French: solitude
• Italian: solitudine
• Portuguese: solidão, solitude
• Spanish: soledumbre

References

• solitudo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• solitudo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SOLITUDO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “solitudo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to live in solitude: in solitudine vivere (Fin. 3. 20. 65)