"solicitate" meaning in English

See solicitate in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /səˈlɪsɪtət/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-solicitate.wav Forms: more solicitate [comparative], most solicitate [superlative]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sollicitātus, perfect passive participle of sollicitō (“to solicit, disturb, rouse”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French solliciter. Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|la|sollicitātus}} Borrowed from Latin sollicitātus, {{af|en|-ate|id1=adjective|pos1=adjective-forming suffix}} -ate (adjective-forming suffix), {{cog|fr|solliciter}} French solliciter Head templates: {{en-adj}} solicitate (comparative more solicitate, superlative most solicitate)
  1. (obsolete) solicitous Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-solicitate-en-adj-oZFYxDsy Categories (other): English terms suffixed with -ate (adjective)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-solicitate2.wav Forms: solicitates [present, singular, third-person], solicitating [participle, present], solicitated [participle, past], solicitated [past]
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin sollicitātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more. Etymology templates: {{bor+|en|la|sollicitātus}} Borrowed from Latin sollicitātus, {{af|en|-ate|id1=verb|pos1=verb-forming suffix}} -ate (verb-forming suffix) Head templates: {{en-verb}} solicitate (third-person singular simple present solicitates, present participle solicitating, simple past and past participle solicitated)
  1. (obsolete, transitive) To solicit. Tags: obsolete, transitive
    Sense id: en-solicitate-en-verb-A2jBPh7W Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English heteronyms, English terms suffixed with -ate (verb), Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 18 82 Disambiguation of English heteronyms: 0 100 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ate (verb): 0 100 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 0 100 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "sollicitātus"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Latin sollicitātus",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-ate",
        "id1": "adjective",
        "pos1": "adjective-forming suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "-ate (adjective-forming suffix)",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "solliciter"
      },
      "expansion": "French solliciter",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin sollicitātus, perfect passive participle of sollicitō (“to solicit, disturb, rouse”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French solliciter.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more solicitate",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most solicitate",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "solicitate (comparative more solicitate, superlative most solicitate)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ate (adjective)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              114,
              124
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1511, Richard Eden, Decades of the New World:",
          "text": "who by them beinge aduertyſed hereof, beganne to caste theyr wyttes what this thyng might meane : beinge no leſſe ſolicitate for them ſelues, then meditatynge in what daunger theyr felowes had byn",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "solicitous"
      ],
      "id": "en-solicitate-en-adj-oZFYxDsy",
      "links": [
        [
          "solicitous",
          "solicitous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) solicitous"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/səˈlɪsɪtət/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-solicitate.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-solicitate.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-solicitate.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-solicitate.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-solicitate.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "solicitate"
}

{
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "sollicitātus"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Latin sollicitātus",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-ate",
        "id1": "verb",
        "pos1": "verb-forming suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "-ate (verb-forming suffix)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin sollicitātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "solicitates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "solicitating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "solicitated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "solicitated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "solicitate (third-person singular simple present solicitates, present participle solicitating, simple past and past participle solicitated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "18 82",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English heteronyms",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ate (verb)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 100",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1969, Great Britain. General Register Office (Scotland), Calendar of the State Papers Relating to Scotland and Mary, ... (page 184)",
          "text": "[…] to solicitate the relief of Sir Robert Kerr and Buccleuch's son […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To solicit."
      ],
      "id": "en-solicitate-en-verb-A2jBPh7W",
      "links": [
        [
          "solicit",
          "solicit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To solicit."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-solicitate2.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-solicitate2.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-solicitate2.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-solicitate2.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-solicitate2.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "solicitate"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English adjectives",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English heteronyms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms borrowed from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms suffixed with -ate (adjective)",
    "English terms suffixed with -ate (verb)",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 1,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "sollicitātus"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Latin sollicitātus",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-ate",
        "id1": "adjective",
        "pos1": "adjective-forming suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "-ate (adjective-forming suffix)",
      "name": "af"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "solliciter"
      },
      "expansion": "French solliciter",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin sollicitātus, perfect passive participle of sollicitō (“to solicit, disturb, rouse”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Compare French solliciter.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more solicitate",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most solicitate",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "solicitate (comparative more solicitate, superlative most solicitate)",
      "name": "en-adj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              114,
              124
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1511, Richard Eden, Decades of the New World:",
          "text": "who by them beinge aduertyſed hereof, beganne to caste theyr wyttes what this thyng might meane : beinge no leſſe ſolicitate for them ſelues, then meditatynge in what daunger theyr felowes had byn",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "solicitous"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "solicitous",
          "solicitous"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) solicitous"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/səˈlɪsɪtət/"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-solicitate.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-solicitate.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-solicitate.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-solicitate.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-solicitate.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "solicitate"
}

{
  "categories": [
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English heteronyms",
    "English lemmas",
    "English terms borrowed from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms suffixed with -ate (verb)",
    "English verbs",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "etymology_number": 2,
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "sollicitātus"
      },
      "expansion": "Borrowed from Latin sollicitātus",
      "name": "bor+"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "-ate",
        "id1": "verb",
        "pos1": "verb-forming suffix"
      },
      "expansion": "-ate (verb-forming suffix)",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from Latin sollicitātus, see Etymology 1 and -ate (verb-forming suffix) for more.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "solicitates",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "solicitating",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "solicitated",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "solicitated",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "solicitate (third-person singular simple present solicitates, present participle solicitating, simple past and past participle solicitated)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "English transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1969, Great Britain. General Register Office (Scotland), Calendar of the State Papers Relating to Scotland and Mary, ... (page 184)",
          "text": "[…] to solicitate the relief of Sir Robert Kerr and Buccleuch's son […]"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To solicit."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "solicit",
          "solicit"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete, transitive) To solicit."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-solicitate2.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-solicitate2.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-solicitate2.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0d/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-solicitate2.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-solicitate2.wav.ogg"
    }
  ],
  "word": "solicitate"
}

Download raw JSONL data for solicitate meaning in English (4.4kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (f492ef9 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.