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語源

From Old French solas, from Latin sōlācium (“consolation”), root from Proto-Indo-European *selh₂- (“mercy, comfort”).

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈsɒl.ɪs/
• (General American) enPR: sŏlʹĭs, IPA^(key): /ˈsɑ.lɪs/
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɔl.ɪs/
  • 韻: -ɒlɪs

名詞

solace (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 solaces)

1. Comfort or consolation in a time of loneliness or distress.

   You cannot put a monetary value on emotional solace.

2. A source of comfort or consolation.
   • September 25, 1750, Samuel Johnson, The Rambler

     The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion.

同意語

派生語

動詞

solace (三人称単数 現在形 solaces, 現在分詞 solacing, 過去形および過去分詞形 solaced)

1. (transitive) To give solace to; comfort; cheer; console.
2. (transitive) To allay or assuage.
3. (intransitive) To take comfort; to be cheered.
   • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:

     But one thing to reioyce and ſolace in,
     And cruell death hath catcht it from my ſight.

関連する語

• console

アナグラム

• Coales, acoels, coales