The story
- Latin · derived fromsollicitō“stir, disturb; look after”
- Old French · derived fromsoliciter
- Middle English · inherited fromsoliciten
- English todaysolicit
From Middle English soliciten, solliciten, from Old French soliciter, solliciter, borrowed from Latin sollicitō (“stir, disturb; look after”), from sollicitus (“agitated, anxious, punctilious”, literally “thoroughly moved”), from sollus (“whole, entire”) + perfect passive participle of cieō (“shake, excite, cite, to put in motion”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.