Latin

Noun

sollicitātiō f ‎(genitive sollicitātiōnis); third declension

1. vexation, anxiety
2. incitement, instigation
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, De brevitate vitae 2

     Quam multorum eloquentia et cotidiana ostentandi ingenii sollicitatio sanguinem educit!

     From how many do eloquence and the daily straining to display their powers draw forth blood!

Inflection

Third declension.

Related terms

• sollicitō

References

• sollicitatio in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sollicitatio in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SOLLICITATIO in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sollicitatio”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.