silentium
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See also: Silentium
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From silēns (“quiet, silent”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /siˈlen.ti.um/, [s̠ɪˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪iʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /siˈlen.t͡si.um/, [siˈlɛnt̪͡s̪ium]
Noun
[edit]silentium n (genitive silentiī or silentī); second declension
- silence, stillness, quiet, noiselessness
- Fac silentium!
- Be quiet!
- Silentio facto.
- With silence being obtained.
- De Partho silentium est.
- Nothing is said about the Parthian.
- obscurity
- inaction, inactivity, cessation, standstill
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | silentium | silentia |
| genitive | silentiī silentī1 |
silentiōrum |
| dative | silentiō | silentiīs |
| accusative | silentium | silentia |
| ablative | silentiō | silentiīs |
| vocative | silentium | silentia |
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
Synonyms
[edit]- (silence): taciturnitās
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- “silentium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “silentium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- silentium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- silentium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- in the silence of the night: silentio noctis
- to pass over in silence: silentio praeterire (not praetermittere) aliquid
- in the silence of the night: silentio noctis