Solace is comfort in a time of sadness. Find solace in music, take solace, offer solace.
It nearly always takes in, and finding solace in something is turning to it rather than being given anything. It is gentler than consolation, which is offered by somebody else.
1nounsolaceComfort in a time of sadness.
“After her husband died, she found solace in her garden.”
solace is a comfort.
Latin solacium means consolation, from solari, to comfort.
Proto-Indo-European
*selh₂- — mercy, comfort
Latin
sōlācium — consolation
Old French
solas
English, today
solace
From Old French solas, from Latin sōlācium (“consolation”), root from Proto-Indo-European selh₂- (“mercy, comfort”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA