silentium

See also: Silentium

Latin

Etymology

From silēns (“quiet, silent”) +‎ -ium.

Pronunciation

Noun

silentium n (genitive silentiī or silentī); second declension

  1. silence, stillness, quiet, noiselessness
    Fac silentium!
    Be quiet!
    Silentio facto.
    With silence being obtained.
    De Partho silentium est.
    Nothing is said about the Parthian.
  2. obscurity
  3. inaction, inactivity, cessation, standstill

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative silentium silentia
genitive silentiī
silentī1 		silentiōrum
dative silentiō silentiīs
accusative silentium silentia
ablative silentiō silentiīs
vocative silentium silentia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • argumentum ex silentio
  • silentiārius
  • silentiōsus
  • silentium est aurum

Descendants

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[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • in the silence of the night: silentio noctis
    • to pass over in silence: silentio praeterire (not praetermittere) aliquid
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