solatium

English

Etymology

From Latin solatium.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /səˈleɪʃi.əm/

Noun

solatium (countable and uncountable, plural solatia)

1. (law) A form of compensation for emotional rather than physical or financial harm.
2. (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

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 精神損害賠償金 / 精神损害赔偿金 (jīngshén sǔnhài péichángjīn), 慰撫金 / 慰抚金 (wèifǔjīn)

• Dutch: smartegeld n
• Finnish: kärsimyskorvaus, korvaus henkisestä kärsimyksestä
• French: (France) pretium doloris (fr) m, (Quebec) solatium doloris (fr) m
• German: Schmerzensgeld (de) n, Schmerzengeld n, Genugtuung (de) f
• Italian: pretium doloris m
• Japanese: 慰謝料 (isharyō), 見舞い金 (mimaikin)
• Manx: argid mollee m
• Spanish: pretium doloris m

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /soːˈlaː.ti.um/, [s̠oːˈɫ̪äːt̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /soˈlat.t͡si.um/, [soˈlät̪ː͡s̪ium]

Noun

sōlātium n (genitive sōlātiī or sōlātī); second declension

1. Alternative form of sōlācium

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	sōlātium	sōlātia
genitive	sōlātiī sōlātī1	sōlātiōrum
dative	sōlātiō	sōlātiīs
accusative	sōlātium	sōlātia
ablative	sōlātiō	sōlātiīs
vocative	sōlātium	sōlātia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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.