tacit

See also: tàcit and Tàcit

English

WOTD – 7 February 2015

Etymology

Borrowed from late Middle French tacite, or from Latin tacitus (“that is passed over in silence, done without words, assumed as a matter of course, silent”), from tacere (“to be silent”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæsɪt/

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• Rhymes: -æsɪt

Adjective

tacit (comparative more tacit, superlative most tacit)

1. Expressed in silence; implied, but not made explicit; silent.

   tacit consent : consent by silence, or by not raising an objection

   • 1983, Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image, page 62:

     He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.

   • 2004, Developing Democracy in Europe: An Analytical Summary (Lawrence Pratchett, Vivien Lowndes; →ISBN:

     […] disengagement represents a tacit rejection of governing institutions and processes, especially among young people, […]

2. (logic) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.

Derived terms

• tacitly
• tacitness

Related terms

• taciturn
• taciturnity
• taciturnly

Translations

Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent

• Armenian: ենթադրվող (hy) (entʿadrvoł), անխոս (hy) (anxos), լուռ (hy) (luṙ)
• Catalan: tàcit
• Dutch: stilzwijgend (nl), non-verbaal (nl)
• Finnish: äänetön (fi), hiljainen (fi)
• French: tacite (fr)
• Georgian: ნაგულისხმევი (nagulisxmevi), მდუმარე (mdumare)
• German: stillschweigend (de), still (de), impliziert (de), unausgesprochen, schweigend (de)
• Greek: σιωπηρός (el) (siopirós)
• Hungarian: hallgatólagos (hu)
• Latin: tacitus

• Macedonian: премолчен (premolčen), преќутен (preḱuten)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stilltiende

• Persian: ضمنی‎ (fa) (zemni)
• Polish: cichy (pl), milczący (pl)
• Portuguese: tácito (pt)
• Russian: молчали́вый (ru) (molčalívyj), подразумева́емый (ru) (podrazumevájemyj) (implied), не вы́раженный слова́ми (ne výražennyj slovámi) (non-verbal, not expressed in words)
• Spanish: tácito (es), implícito (es)
• Swedish: tyst (sv), underförstådd (sv), outtalad (sv)

Not derived from formal principles of reasoning

• German: stillschweigend (de), implizit (de)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: implisitt (no)

• Portuguese: indutivo

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Translations to be checked

• Estonian: ^{(please verify)} vaikiv, ^{(please verify)} sõnamatu, ^{(please verify)} väljendamatu

Further reading

• tacit in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• tacit in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.
• tacit at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Attic, attic, ticat