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Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, 1760.silentium on page 1760
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silentium silence
silentium is a Latin Noun that primarily means silence.
Definitions for silentium
Wheelock's Latin
Noun
- 1
silence
Oxford Latin Dictionary
Noun
- 1
Absence of sound, silence, quiet. (c) (as technically defined in augural observance) ceremonial silence.
- 2
The fact of abstaining from speech, utterance, or other noise, silence; (as induced by rage, etc.) speechlessness. (b) the fact of not uttering secrets, etc., reticence. (c) (leg.) failure to put in a claim. (d) (leg.) disqualification from pleading.
- 3
Silence (of an audience, etc.).
Sentences with silentium
Latin to English
Est et fideli tuta silentio merces.Compare Loyal reticence too has its reward secure.
Profunda super nos altitudo temporis veniet, pauca ingenia caput exerent et in idem quandoque silentium abitura oblivioni resistent ac se diu vindicabunt.Compare The deep flood of time will roll over us; some few great men will raise their heads above it, and, though destined at the last to depart into the same realms of silence, will battle against oblivion and maintain their ground for long.
Nox silentium audio vox clarus humanus.Compare In the silence of the night he heard a voice louder than that of a man.
Illud autem erat inclemens, obruendum perenni silentio, quod arcebat docere magistros rhetoricos et grmmaticos, ritus Christiani cultores.Compare But this one thing was inhumane, and ought to be buried in eternal silence, namely, that he forbade teachers of rhetoric to practice their profession, if they were followers of the Christian religion.
Declension table for silentium
Cactus2000
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nom. | silentium | silentia |
| Gen. | silentiī | silentiōrum |
| Dat. | silentiō | silentiīs |
| Acc. | silentium | silentia |
| Abl. | silentiō | silentiīs |
Data sources
Notes
- Definitions
- Frederick M. Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 6th ed., rev. Richard A. LaFleur (New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005): 487.
- P. G. W. Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary, Vols. 1-8 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982): 1760.
- Word frequencies
- Paul B. Diederich, The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings, PhD diss., (Columbia University, 1939).
- Louis Delatte, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard, Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language] (Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège [L.A.S.L.A.], 1981): 126.
Bibliography
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Delatte, Louis, Suzanne Govaerts, Joseph Denooz, and Etienne Evrard. Dictionnaire fréquentiel et index inverse de la langue latine [Frequency Dictionary and Inverse Index of the Latin Language]. Liège, Belgium: Laboratoire d'analyse statistique des langues anciennes de l'Université de Liège (L.A.S.L.A.), 1981.
Diederich, Paul B. The Frequency of Latin Words and Their Endings. PhD diss., Columbia University, 1939.
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Wiktionary Contributors. "Victionarium." Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Updated March 18, 2019. https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/Victionarium:Pagina_prima.
Citation
Chicago (17th ed.)
Allo Contributors. "silentium, silentiī (n.) - Latin Word Definition." Allo Latin Dictionary. Last modified . Accessed November 22, 2024. http://ancientlanguages.org/latin/dictionary/silentium-silentii.
Entry created on . Last updated on .
Wheelock's Latin
Wheelock, Wheelock's Latin, 487.on page 487
