Other forms: consolations
Consolation is comfort given after a loss or a disappointment. Small consolation, offer consolation, a consolation prize.
A consolation prize is given to somebody who did not win and is usually mentioned with a wince. It is the noun beside console, and small consolation is the phrase for comfort that does not help much.
1nounconsolationComfort given after a loss or a disappointment.
“Her friends' kind messages were a consolation after she failed the exam.”
consolation is a comfort.
Latin consolatio comes from consolari, to comfort, from con plus solari, to soothe.
Old French
consolacion
English, today
consolation
From Old French consolacion (French consolatio), from Latin cōnsōlātiō, from the deponent verb cōnsōlor (“I console, encourage”) with the -tiō suffix, while cōnsōlor comprises the intensifying prefix con- with the deponent verb sōlor (“I comfort, console”). Equivalent to console + ation. a doublet of consolatio.
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