Where does “solicitous” come from?

Solicitous comes from Latin sollicitus, meaning anxious or concerned, from sollus (whole, entire) and sol(h₂)nós (whole), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European solh₂-.

solicitous (English): Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something...

Definitions

  1. Disposed to solicit; eager to obtain something...

Ancestry of “solicitous”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinsōlicitus

Words derived from “solicitous

Every word from Latin sōlicitus