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Latin
Etymology
From silēns (“quiet, silent”) + -ium.
Pronunciation
Noun
silentium n (genitive silentiī or silentī); second declension
- silence, stillness, quiet, noiselessness
Silentio facto.- With silence being obtained.
De Partho silentium est.- Nothing is said about the Parthian.
- obscurity
- inaction, inactivity, cessation, standstill
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).
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References
- “silentium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “silentium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- silentium 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)
- silentium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- in the silence of the night: silentio noctis
- to pass over in silence: silentio praeterire (not praetermittere) aliquid