sollemnis

Latin

Alternative forms

• sōlemnis, sōlempnis, sōlennis, sollempnis, sollennis

Etymology 1

Traditionally from sollus (“whole, entire”) + annus (“year”), but the dissimilation within a geminate this requires is bizarre. Szemerényi proposes an old middle participle of soleo but has difficulty accounting for the geminate ll. Nussbaum offers sollus + epulum (“feast, banquet”), taking the latter component to have originally meant "ritual", with dissimilation ll...l > ll...n.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /solˈlem.nis/, [s̠ɔlˈlʲɛmnɪs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /solˈlem.nis/, [solˈlɛmnis]

Adjective

sollemnis (neuter sollemne, comparative sollemnior, adverb sollemniter); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. yearly, annual
2. established, appointed, fixed
3. common, usual, customary, ordinary, ritual, traditional

   Synonyms: ūsuālis, ōrdinārius, cotīdiānus

4. religious, solemn, ceremonial; festive

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	sollemnis	sollemne		sollemnēs	sollemnia
genitive	sollemnis			sollemnium
dative	sollemnī			sollemnibus
accusative	sollemnem	sollemne		sollemnēs sollemnīs	sollemnia
ablative	sollemnī			sollemnibus
vocative	sollemnis	sollemne		sollemnēs	sollemnia

Derived terms

• sollemne
• sollemnitās
• sollemniter
• sollemnitus

 

Related terms

• sollers
• sollicitātiō
• sollicitātor
• sollicitus
• solliferreum
• sollus

Descendants

• Catalan: solemne
• English: solemn
• French: solennel
• Italian: solenne
• Portuguese: solene
• Old French: solemne, solempne
• Romanian: solemn
• Spanish: solemne

Etymology 2

Inflected form of sollemne (“religious or solemn rite, ceremony”).

Noun

sollemnis

1. genitive singular of sollemne

References

• “sollemnis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sollemnis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sollemnis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.