Asturian edit

Verb edit

quies

  1. second-person singular present indicative of querer

Latin edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Italic *kʷjētis, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéh₁-ti-s, from *kʷyeh₁- (to rest).

Cognates include Avestan 𐬱𐬁𐬌𐬙𐬌- (šāiti-, happiness), Old Persian [script needed] (šiyāti-, luck), Old Armenian հանգչիմ (hangčʿim). See also tranquillus.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

quiēs f (genitive quiētis); third declension

  1. the rest of sleep, repose
    • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.667–668:
      excutitur terrōre quiēs: Numa vīsa revolvit
      et sēcum ambāgēs caecaque iussa refert
      Rest is being driven out by terror: Numa ponders the visions,
      and within himself he recalls the ambiguities and obscure commands.

      (King Numa Pompilius is startled awake after dreaming of how to appease Demeter/Ceres (mythology) and restore prosperity to the farmers.)
  2. quiet, calm, lull, peace, cessation from labor
    Synonyms: otium, tranquillitas, serenitas, pax
    Antonyms: rebellio, seditio, turba, inquies, concursus, perculsus, tumultus
  3. (figurative) dream
    per quiētem
    through/in a dream
Declension edit

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative quiēs quiētēs
Genitive quiētis quiētum
Dative quiētī quiētibus
Accusative quiētem quiētēs
Ablative quiēte quiētibus
Vocative quiēs quiētēs
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit

References edit

  • quies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • quies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • in a dream: per quietem, in quiete
  • quies”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quies”, in William Smith, editor (1848) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
  • quiet”, in The Century Dictionary [], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
  • Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 388

Etymology 2 edit

See above.

Pronunciation edit

Adjective edit

quiēs (genitive quiētis, comparative quiētior, superlative quiētissimus, adverb quiētē); third-declension one-termination adjective

  1. (Old Latin) Alternative form of quiētus
    • c. 270 BCEc. 201 BCE, Gnaeus Naevius, Bellum Punicum 2:
      Iamque eius mentem Fortūna fēcerat quiētem.
      And now Fortune made his mind relaxed.
Declension edit

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

Number Singular Plural
Case / Gender Masc./Fem. Neuter Masc./Fem. Neuter
Nominative quiēs quiētēs quiētia
Genitive quiētis quiētium
Dative quiētī quiētibus
Accusative quiētem quiēs quiētēs quiētia
Ablative quiētī quiētibus
Vocative quiēs quiētēs quiētia
See also edit

References edit

  • quies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • quies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette