solatium
English
Etymology
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /səˈleɪʃi.əm/
Noun
solatium (countable and uncountable, plural solatia)
- (law) A form of compensation for emotional rather than physical or financial harm.
- (figurative) Intangible or emotional compensation.
- "But Italian cabmen who are engaged by the hour regard the long waits beneath shady trees as a solatium for the reduced fare." C. Lewis Hind, The Education of an Artist (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1906, page 160).
Translations
compensation for emotional harm
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Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /soːˈlaː.ti.um/, [s̠oːˈɫ̪äːt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /soˈlat.t͡si.um/, [soˈlät̪ː͡s̪ium]
Declension
Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
References
- “solatium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- solatium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- solatium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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