quietus
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: kwī.ēʹtəs
Noun
quietus (usually uncountable, plural quietuses)
- A stillness or pause; something that quiets or represses; removal from activity.
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1:
- […] when he might himself his quietus make with a bare bodkin?
- c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1:
- (figuratively) Death.
- 1886, Henry James, The Bostonians.
- Olive's specific terrors and dangers had by this time very much blown over; Basil Ransom had given no sign of life for ages, and Henry Burrage had certainly got his quietus before they went to Europe.
- 1886, Henry James, The Bostonians.
- Final settlement (e.g., of a debt).
Related terms
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of quiēscō (“repose, lie still”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kʷiˈeː.tus/, [kᶣiˈeː.tʊs]
Declension
First/second declension.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | quiētus | quiēta | quiētum | quiētī | quiētae | quiēta | |
Genitive | quiētī | quiētae | quiētī | quiētōrum | quiētārum | quiētōrum | |
Dative | quiētō | quiētō | quiētīs | ||||
Accusative | quiētum | quiētam | quiētum | quiētōs | quiētās | quiēta | |
Ablative | quiētō | quiētā | quiētō | quiētīs | |||
Vocative | quiēte | quiēta | quiētum | quiētī | quiētae | quiēta |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Aromanian: ãntset
- Asturian: quedu, quietu
- Catalan: quiet, quiti
- Dutch: kwijt
- English: coy, quiet, quietus, quit
- French: coi, quiet, quitte
- Friulian: cuiet, cujet
- Galician: quieto
- Italian: cheto, quieto
- Portuguese: quedo, quieto
- Romanian: încet, cet, chit
- Romansch: quiet, quieu, tgieu, cieu
- Sardinian: chetu, achietu, chietu
- Sicilian: cuetu, quetu
- Spanish: quedo, quieto
- Venetian: chieto, chiet, cet
References
- quietus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- quietus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quietus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- quietus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to lay oneself down to slee: somno or quieti se tradere
- in a dream: per quietem, in quiete
- to remain inactive in camp: se (quietum) tenere castris
- to lay oneself down to slee: somno or quieti se tradere
- quietus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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