silentium
See also: Silentium
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From silēns (“quiet, silent”) + -ium.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) 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).
| Case | 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 edit
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Descendants 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