SOLICITUDE

PRONUNCIATION: (suh-LIS-i-tood, -tyood)

MEANING: noun: Care or concern for another.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin sollus (whole), ultimately from the Indo-European root sol- (whole), which brought us solid, salute, save, salvo, soldier, catholicity, salutary, and salubrious + citus, past participle of ciere (to arouse), ultimately from the Indo-European root kei- (to set in motion), which also gave us cinema, kinetic, excite, and resuscitate. Earliest documented use: 1412.

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SOLIDITUDE - impassiveness

SOLICITUNE - the piano-man's job in a bar

SOLICIDUDE - what a hooker does