taciri

taciri

1. inflection of tacir:
   1. definite accusative singular
   2. third-person singular/plural possessive nominative singular

Inherited from Classical Latin taceō, tacēre, from Proto-Italic *takēō, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *tak-, *tHk-eh₁-.

• IPA^(key): /taˈt͡ʃi.ri/, /ˈta.t͡ʃi.ri/^[1]

taciri

1. (intransitive) to be silent, to keep quiet

taciri m (invariable)

1. silence
   • 13^th century, Stefano Protonotaro, Pir meu cori alligrari [To gladden my own heart]‎^[1]:

     mi ritornu in cantari, / ca forsi longiamenti / ca forsi levimenti / da dimuranza turniria in usatu / di lu troppu taciri

     I go back to singing; for perhaps, in the long run, the excessive silence might perhaps easily turn from hesitation to habit

• Mortillaro, Vincenzo (1862) “taciri”, in Nuovo vocabolario siciliano-italiano (in Italian), page 859
• Pasqualino (c. 1790) “taciri”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 2, page 170