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Latin
Etymology
From quiētus (“quiet, calm, at rest”) from Proto-Italic *kʷjētos, perfect passive participle of quiēscō (“to rest, repose, lie still”).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Quiētus m sg (genitive Quiētī); second declension
- A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
- Titus Avidius Quietus, a Roman senator and consul
- Lusius Quietus, a Roman general and governor of Judaea
Declension
Second-declension noun, singular only.
Descendants
- → Koine Greek: Κυήτος (Kuḗtos)
Further reading
- “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- Quietus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Quietus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
- “Quietus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers