solstice

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsɒl.stɪs/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈsəʊl.stɪs/
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• General-American: /ˈsɑl.stɪs/
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• General-American: /ˈsoʊl.stɪs/
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• rhymes with -ɒlstɪs
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• rhymes with -əʊlstɪs
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• CMU ARPABET: S AO1 L S T IH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sóh2wl̥ Latin sōl Proto-Indo-European *steh2- Proto-Indo-European *stísteh2ti Proto-Italic *sistō Latin sistō Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -ium Latin sōlstitiumlbor. Old French solsticebor. Middle English solstice English solstice From Middle English solstice, from Old French solstice, from Latin sōlstitium.

77 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: اِنْقِلَاب شَمْسِيّ (inqilāb šamsiyy) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Armenian: արեւադարձ (arewadarj) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Asturian: solsticiu — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Belarusian: сонцастая́нне (soncastajánnje) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Breton: goursav-heol — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Bulgarian: слънцестое́не (slǎncestoéne) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Catalan: solstici — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Chinese Mandarin: 至日 (zhìrì) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Chinese Mandarin: 至點 /至点 (zhìdiǎn) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Chinese Mandarin: 冬至 (dōngzhì) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Chinese Mandarin: 夏至 (xiàzhì) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Czech: slunovrat — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Danish: solhverv — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Dutch: zonnewende — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Dutch: zonnestilstand — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Esperanto: solstico — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Estonian: pööripäev — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Finnish: päivänseisaus — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• French: solstice — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Georgian: ნაბუნიობა (nabunioba) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Georgian: მზებუდობა (mzebudoba) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• German: Sonnenwende — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Greek: ηλιοστάσιο (iliostásio) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Hindi: अयनांत (aynānt) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Hungarian: napforduló — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Icelandic: sólstöður — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Icelandic: sólhvörf — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Irish: grianstad — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Italian: solstizio — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Japanese: 冬至 (tōji) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Japanese: 夏至 (geshi) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Karachay-Balkar: къоргъазин (qorğazin) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Korean: 지점 (jijeom) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Korean: 동지 (dongji) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Korean: 하지 (haji) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Latin: solstitium — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Latin: brūma — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Latvian: saulgrieži — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Lithuanian: saulėgrįža — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Macedonian: сонцестој (soncestoj) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Malay: solstis — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Malayalam: അയനം (ayanaṁ) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Māori: takanga o te rā — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Māori: hikumutu — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Māori: Ihu o Takurua — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Māori: Ihu o Hineraumati — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Māori: te tuakaihautanga o Tamanuiterā — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Navajo: shá niighááh — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Navajo: shá niiltłʼah — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Norwegian Bokmål: solverv — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Norwegian Nynorsk: solkverv — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Old English: sunstede — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Persian: گشتن (gaštan) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Persian: انقلاب (enqelâb) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Polish: przesilenie — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Portuguese: solstício — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Romanian: solstițiu — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Romanian: solstițiul verii — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Romanian: solstițiul iernii — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Russian: солнцестоя́ние (solncestojánije) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Sanskrit: अयनान्त (ayanānta) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Serbo-Croatian: suncostaj — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Serbo-Croatian: су̏нцоста̄ј — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Sikkimese: ཉིན་ལྡོག (nyin ldog) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Slovak: slnovrat — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Slovene: sónčev obràt — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Slovene: solstícij — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Spanish: solsticio — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Swedish: sommarsolstånd — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Swedish: vintersolstånd — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Swedish: solstånd — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Tagalog: solstisyo — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Thai: มายัน (mayan) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Tibetan: ཉི་མ་ལོག་ཡག (nyi ma log yag) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Ukrainian: сонцестоя́ння (soncestojánnja) — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Vietnamese: điểm chí — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun
• Welsh: heuldro — point where the earth stands at the extreme of its ellipsis around the sun