Solemn

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Solemn (Lat. sollemnis, sollennis, less correctly solennis, = "yearly", "annual"; from sollus totus = "whole", "entire"), properly "that which occurs annually", hence at stated intervals, regular, established; the term being particularly used of religious rites or ceremonies which recur at stated intervals, hence festive, sacred, marked by religious ceremony or ritual, and so grave, impressive, serious, the most general current usage. Another branch of meaning stresses the formal, customary aspect; and hence in such phrases as solemn act, probate in solemn form, it means that which is done with all due forms and ceremonies.

Another possible etymology is via Latin solemnus from early Latin presumed *solomenos, the present passive participle of soleō = "I am accustomed". In Latin the -menos participle disappeared before classical times except for a few fossil formms such as alumnus (from *alomenos from alō = "I nurture"), and the 2nd person plural passive verb ending -minī from an old periphrastic form *-minī estis = "you (masc. pl.) are being ---ed". (The -menos ending occurs in Greek and Sanskrit.)

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