köken: Inherited from Latin sōlitārius (“lonely”). Compare Portuguese solteiro, Catalan solter. See also the borrowed doublet solitario. Another theory, perhaps less likely, derives it from suelto, from Latin solutus (“unbound, released, free, at large”).
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese solteiro, solteyro, from Latin sōlitārius (“lonely”). Compare Spanish soltero, Catalan solter. Doublet of solitário. Folk etymology connects it to solto (“free, unbound”).
unmarried, single · associated with or pertaining to being single, solitary or unmarried · of a genus name: not yet formally associated with any specific epithet as part of a complete binomial species name
zıt: marītus
köken: Unknown. Suggestions include Proto-Indo-European *kéywelos (“alone”), whence Sanskrit केवल (kévala, “alone”), but the root is obscure and the suffix unexplained. Alternatively, possibly a suffixation of the similarly-shaped Proto-Indo-European *koyl- (see *kéh₂ilos (“safe, unharmed, whole”)), via unattested *cael, though the b in the Latin form remains mysterious.
aile: caelibātus
Nil ait esse prius, melius nil caelibe vita.
Aucupor in lecto mendaces caelibe somnos; / dum careo veris gaudia falsa iuvant.
Livia sic tecum sociales compleat annos, quae, nisi te, nullo coniuge digna fuit, quae si non esset, caelebs te vita deceret,