different between emotional vs solatium

English

Etymology

emotion +? -al

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??m????n?l/, /??m???n?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??mo???n?l/, /??mo??n?l/, /i?mo???n?l/
• Rhymes: -????n?l

Adjective

emotional (comparative more emotional, superlative most emotional)

1. Of or relating to the emotions.

   emotional crisis

   emotional lift

2. Characterised by emotion.
3. Determined by emotion rather than reason.

   emotional decision

4. Appealing to or arousing emotion.

   emotional speech

5. Easily affected by emotion.

   She’s an emotional person.

6. Readily displaying emotion.

   emotional greeting

Synonyms

• demonstrative
• effusive
• sentimental
• temperamental

Derived terms

Translations

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?l

Adjective

emotional (comparative emotionaler, superlative am emotionalsten)

1. emotional

Declension

Related terms

• Emotion

Further reading

• “emotional” in Duden online

English

Noun

solatium (countable and uncountable, plural solatia)

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

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /so??la?.ti.um/, [s?o????ä?t?i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /so?la.t?si.um/, [s??l??t??s?ium]

Noun

s?l?tium n (genitive s?l?ti? or s?l?t?); second declension

1. Alternative form of s?l?cium

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• solatium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette