Latin

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Etymology

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From sollus (whole, entire) cieō (move, stir, shake).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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sollicitus (feminine sollicita, neuter sollicitum, comparative sollicitior); first/second-declension adjective

  1. Thoroughly moved, agitated or disturbed; restless, unceasing.
  2. (of mental afflictions) Troubled, engaged, upset, disturbed, anxious, solicitous; afflicted.
    Synonym: perturbātus
  3. (idiomatic) Worried
    Noli sollicitus esse
    Don't worry
  4. Excited, passionate.
  5. Very careful for, concerned in, punctilious, particular about.

Declension

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First/second-declension adjective.

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References

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  • sollicitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sollicitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sollicitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be vexed, mortified, anxious: sollicitum esse
    • something harasses me, makes me anxious: aliquid me sollicitat, me sollicitum habet, mihi sollicitudini est, mihi sollicitudinem affert