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Latin
Etymology
From re- (“again”) + quiēs (“quiet, rest”).
Pronunciation
Noun
requiēs f (variously declined, genitive requiētis or requiēī or requiē); third declension, fifth declension
- rest, repose, respite, cessation
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.433–434:
- “Tempus ināne petō, requiem spatiumque furōrī,
dum mea mē vīctam doceat fortūna dolēre.”- “I ask for an empty time, a respite and space for my passion, until my fortune teaches me — defeated — to grieve.”
- Requiem aeternam dōnā eīs, Domine; et lūx perpetua lūceat eīs. (First line of the introit of the w:Requiem mass)
- Grant them eternal rest, Lord; and may perpetual light shine on them.
- a place of rest
Declension
The singular also attests 5th declension forms.
Third-declension noun or fifth-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “requies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “requies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- requies 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)
- requies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.