quies

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Asturian

Verb

quies

  1. second-person singular present indicative of querer

Latin

Etymology 1

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

Cognates include Avestan 𐬱𐬁𐬌𐬙𐬌- (šāiti-, “happiness”), Old Persian (šiyāti-, “luck”), Old Armenian հանգչիմ (hangčʻim). See also tranquillus.

Pronunciation

Noun

quiēs f (genitive quiētis); third declension

  1. the rest of sleep, repose
    • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.4-5:
      nec placidam membrīs dat cūra quiētem.
      grants no stillness to limbs, nor rest from her worries.
    • 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

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative quiēs quiētēs
genitive quiētis quiētum
dative quiētī quiētibus
accusative quiētem quiētēs
ablative quiēte quiētibus
vocative quiēs quiētēs
Derived terms

References

  • “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, 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

See above.

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

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

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

singular plural
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

References

  • “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.
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