solatium

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin solatium. === 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 ==== === Anagrams === mailouts == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [soːˈɫaː.ti.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [soˈlat.t͡si.um] === Noun === sōlātium n (genitive sōlātiī or sōlātī); second declension alternative form of sōlācium ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 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, 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.