Solicitas

Solicitas is a Latin abstract noun meaning solicitude, care, or concern. It is formed from the adjective sollicitus (anxious, solicitous) with the nominal suffix -tas, yielding a feminine noun; the standard form in Latin texts is solicitas, with genitive solicitatis. In classical and late antique usage, solicitas denotes the quality of being solicitous, encompassing careful attention to a person or task, as well as anxiety or apprehension about outcomes. The term appears in ethical, religious, and rhetorical contexts, where it can express prudent care or, less positively, fretful concern.

In translation, solicitas is commonly rendered as “solicitude,” “care,” or “anxiety.” Its sense ranges from neutral diligence to emotional unease, depending on context. The word is comparatively rare in everyday Latin prose and is primarily of interest to students and scholars examining Latin vocabulary, textual criticism, or historical usage of -tas nouns.

Relation to other terms includes the adjective sollicitus (anxious, concerned) and the verb sollicitare (to solicit, to rouse, or to provoke). In some Romance-language lexicons, related forms may appear as cognates of the same root, but solicitas as a standalone Latin noun is chiefly a linguistic and philological concern rather than a living term in modern languages.

See also: sollicitus, sollicitare, sollicitatio. For precise forms and usage, consult standard Latin dictionaries such as Lewis and Short or the Oxford Latin Dictionary.