solicitous

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The Word of the Day for September 16 is:

solicitous   \suh-LIS-uh-tus\   adjective 
     1 : full of concern or fears : apprehensive 
    *2 : meticulously careful 
     3 : full of desire : eager 

Example sentence: 
     "She nursed him, she read to him, she anticipated his wants, and was 
solicitous about his feelings." (George Eliot, _Middlemarch_)

Did you know? 
     If you're solicitous about learning the connections between words, you'll 
surely want to know about the relationship between "solicitous" and another 
word you've probably heard before -- "solicit." "Solicitous" doesn't come from 
"solicit," but the two words are related. They both have their roots in the 
Latin word "sollicitus," meaning "anxious." "Solicitous" itself came directly 
from this Latin word, whereas "solicit" made its way to English with a few more 
steps. From "sollicitus" came the Latin verb "sollicitare," meaning "to 
disturb, agitate, move, or entreat." Forms of this verb were borrowed into 
Anglo-French, and then Middle English, and have survived in Modern English as 
"solicit." 

*Indicates the sense illustrated in the example sentence.




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