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Definition: SOLATIUM |
SOLATIUMNoun1. Anything which alleviates or compensates for suffering or loss; a compensation; esp., an additional allowance, as for injured feelings. |
Date "SOLATIUM" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1915. (references) |
Etymology: Solatium \So*la"ti*um\, noun. [Latin expression See Solace, noun.]. (Websters 1913) |
"SOLATIUM" is a common misspelling or typo for: solarium. |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Solatium (A). A recompense: a sop; a solace. (Latin, solatium.) "It may be that Mr. Elden will be persuaded to take one, by way of solatium for his defeat in Somersetshire."- Newspaper paragraph, December, 1885. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Reward | Douceur, bribe; hush money, smart money; blackmail, extortion; carcelage; solatium. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| "SOLATIUM" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SOLATIUM" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "SOLATIUM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kompensim (amends, compensation, offset, quid pro quo, quits, recompense, recoupment, return, weighting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | утешение (solace), обезщетение (amends, come back, compensation, cover, damages, indemnification, indemnity, offset, recompense, recoupment, redress, reparation, satisfaction). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | indemnité de consolation. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | fájdalomdíj (recompense, smart money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 慰藉料 (consolation money), 慰謝料 (consolation money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | いしゃりょう (consolation money). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | argid mollee. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olatiumsay возмещение (atonement, compensation, indemnification, indemnity, offset, quittance, recoupment, recovery, redress, refund, reimbursement, reparation, repayment). (various references) obeštećenje (compensation, indemnification, indemnity, redress, remuneration, reparation). (various references) ค่าช"เชย. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Words rhyming with "SOLATIUM" (pronounced 'So*la"ti*um'): Abandum, Absinthium, Acetabulum, Aconitum, Acrodactylum, Acropodium, Acrotarsium, Acroterium, Actinium, Addendum, Adiantum, Adytum, AEcidium, Agendum, Ageratum, Alabastrum, Alarum, Album, Alburnum, Alcyonium, Allium, Allodium, Alluvium, Aluminium, Aluminum, Ambulacrum, Amentum, Ammonium, Amoebaeum, Amomum, Amphibium, Anacardium, Androecium, Animalculum, Antependium, Antheridium, Anthodium, Antibrachium, Anticlinorium, Antrum, Apodyterium, Apothecium, Aquarium, Arachnidium, Arboretum, Arcanum, Archegonium, Archipterygium, Argentalium, arum. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-i-l-m-o-s-t-u" | |
-1 letter: outsail, somital, ultimas. | |
-2 letters: almost, autism, litmus, maloti, miaous, miauls, moults, ostium, smalti, smalto, stomal, ultima, ultimo. | |
-3 letters: alist, altos, alums, atoms, autos, iotas, limas, limos, litas, loams, lotas, lotus, louis, louts, mails, maist, malts, mauls, mauts, miaou, miaul, milos, milts, moats, moils, moist, molas, molts, moult, omits, ostia, salmi, sault, smalt, smolt. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-i-l-m-o-s-t-u" | |
+1 letter: simulator. | |
+2 letters: absolutism, calamitous, emulations, lipomatous, mutilators, simulation, simulators, stimulator, suboptimal. | |
+3 letters: absolutisms, ambitiously, ambulations, automobiles, communalist, cumulations, customarily, filamentous, ligamentous, maculations, milquetoast, modulations, morulations, multiparous, mutilations, simulations, stimulation, stimulators, stimulatory, sublimation, summational, tourmalines, voluntarism. | |
+4 letters: abstemiously, ambulatories, automobilist, calamitously, calumniators, communalists, culminations, dissimulator, emasculation, formulations, fulminations, humiliations, illuminators, malfunctions, manipulators, milquetoasts, modularities, multifarious, multinomials, noctambulist, rambouillets, simultaneous, slumpflation, somnambulist, stimulations, stratocumuli, sublimations, subnormality, tetrazoliums, tolbutamides, unmoralities, voluntarisms, voluntaryism. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4F 4C 41 54 49 55 4D |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... --- .-.. .- - .. ..- -- |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001111 01001100 01000001 01010100 01001001 01010101 01001101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S O L A T I U M |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004F 004C 0041 0054 0049 0055 004D |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5349463554435547 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Usage Frequency 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Rhymes 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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