soliloquium

English

Noun

soliloquium (plural soliloquia)

1. Archaic form of soliloquy.

Latin

Etymology

From sōlus (“alone”) +‎ loquor (“to speak”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [soː.lɪˈɫɔ.kʷi.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [so.liˈlɔː.kʷi.um]

Noun

sōliloquium n (genitive sōliloquiī or sōliloquī); second declension

1. soliloquy

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	sōliloquium	sōliloquia
genitive	sōliloquiī sōliloquī1	sōliloquiōrum
dative	sōliloquiō	sōliloquiīs
accusative	sōliloquium	sōliloquia
ablative	sōliloquiō	sōliloquiīs
vocative	sōliloquium	sōliloquia

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

Descendants

• Catalan: soliloqui
• → English: soliloquy
• → French: soliloque
• → German: Soliloquium
• Galician: soliloquio
• Italian: soliloquio
• → Romanian: solilocviu, soliloc

References

• “soliloquium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "soliloquium", 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)
• “soliloquium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.