solatium

Latin solatium

• IPA^(key): /səˈleɪʃi.əm/

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).

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

sōlātium n (genitive sōlātiī or sōlātī); second declension

1. Alternative form of sōlācium

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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

• “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.