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Illumination of Earth by Sun at the southern solstice.

Proto-Indo-European *-yós

Middle English solstice

English solstice

From Middle English solstice, from Old French solstice, from Latin sōlstitium.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɒl.stɪs/, /ˈsəʊl.stɪs/
• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɑl.stɪs/, /ˈsoʊl.stɪs/
• Rhymes: -ɒlstɪs, -əʊlstɪs

solstice (plural solstices)

1. One of the two points in the ecliptic at which the sun is furthest from the celestial equator. This corresponds to one of two days in the year when the day is either longest or shortest.
   Synonym: sunstead
   Hyponyms: summer solstice, winter solstice
   Coordinate terms: equinox, lunistice
   • 2010, Capt Sp Meek, The Solar Magnet‎[1]:
     The point at which the sun is nearest to the south pole we call the winter solstice, and the opposite point, the summer solstice.

• equinox

• northern solstice

• southern solstice

• summer solstice

• winter solstice

• solstitial

point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun

• Arabic: اِنْقِلَاب شَمْسِيّ m (inqilāb šamsiyy)

• Armenian: արևադարձ (hy) (arewadarj)

• Asturian: solsticiu (ast)

• Belarusian: сонцастая́нне n (soncastajánnje)

• Breton: goursav-heol m

• Bulgarian: слънцестое́не n (slǎncestoéne)

• Catalan: solstici (ca) m

• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 至日 (zh) (zhìrì), 至點 / 至点 (zh) (zhìdiǎn), 冬至 (zh) (dōngzhì) (winter solstice), 夏至 (zh) (xiàzhì) (summer solstice)

• Czech: slunovrat (cs) m

• Danish: solhverv (da) n

• Dutch: zonnewende (nl) f, zonnestilstand (nl) m

• Esperanto: solstico (eo)

• Estonian: pööripäev

• Finnish: päivänseisaus (fi)

• French: solstice (fr) m

• Georgian: ნაბუნიობა (nabunioba), მზებუდობა (mzebudoba)

• German: Sonnenwende (de) f

• Greek: ηλιοστάσιο (el) n (iliostásio)

• Hindi: अयनांत (hi) m (aynānt)

• Hungarian: napforduló (hu)

• Icelandic: sólstöður (is) f pl, sólhvörf n pl

• Irish: grianstad m

• Italian: solstizio (it) m

• Japanese: 冬至 (ja) (とうじ, tōji) (winter solstice), 夏至 (ja) (げし, geshi) (summer solstice)

• Karachay-Balkar: къоргъазин (qorğazin)

• Korean: 지점 (ko) (jijeom), 동지 (ko) (dongji) (winter), 하지 (ko) (haji) (summer)

• Latin: solstitium (la) n (summer), brūma f (winter)

• Latvian: saulgrieži (lv) m pl

• Lithuanian: saulėgrįža f

• Macedonian: сонцестој m (soncestoj)

• Malay: solstis

• Malayalam: അയനം (ml) (ayanaṁ)

• Māori: takanga o te rā, hikumutu (winter solstice), Ihu o Takurua (winter), Ihu o Hineraumati (summer), te tuakaihautanga o Tamanuiterā

• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can

• Navajo: shá niighááh, shá niiltłʼah

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: solverv n
  Nynorsk: solkverv m

• Old English: sunstede m

• Persian: گشتن (fa) (gaštan), انقلاب (fa) (enqelâb)

• Polish: przesilenie (pl) n

• Portuguese: solstício (pt) m

• Romanian: solstițiu (ro) n, solstițiul verii n, solstițiul iernii n

• Russian: солнцестоя́ние (ru) n (solncestojánije)

• Sanskrit: अयनान्त (sa) m (ayanānta)

• Serbo-Croatian: suncostaj (sh) m, су̏нцоста̄ј m

• Sikkimese: ཉིན་ལྡོག (nyin ldog)

• Slovak: slnovrat (sk) m

• Slovene: sónčev obràt m, solstícij m

• Spanish: solsticio (es) m

• Swedish: sommarsolstånd (sv) (the longest day), vintersolstånd (sv) (the shortest day), solstånd (sv) n

• Tagalog: solstisyo

• Thai: มายัน (mayan)

• Tibetan: ཉི་མ་ལོག་ཡག (nyi ma log yag)

• Ukrainian: сонцестоя́ння (uk) n (soncestojánnja)

• Vietnamese: điểm chí

• Welsh: heuldro m

• isolects, scolites, solecist

Inherited from Old French solstice, a learned borrowing from Latin sōlstitium, from sōl + sistō + -ium.

• IPA(key): /sɔl.stis/
• Rhymes: -is

solstice m (plural solstices)

1. (astronomy) solstice
   Hyponyms: solstice d'été, solstice d'hiver

• Haitian Creole: sòlstis
• → Romanian: solstițiu
• “solstice”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
• solsticium

From Old French solstice and Latin sōlstitium.

solstice (plural solstices)

1. solstice (summer or winter)
2. the day of the solstice

• English: solstice
• “solstice, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 22 June 2024.

Learned borrowing from Latin sōlstitium.

solstice oblique singular, m (oblique plural solstices, nominative singular solstices, nominative plural **solstice)

1. (astronomy) solstice

• French: solstice
  • Haitian Creole: sòlstis
  • → Romanian: solstițiu
• → Middle English: solstice
  • English: solstice