Quietus

See also: quietus

Latin

Etymology

From quiētus (“quiet, calm, at rest”) from Proto-Italic *kʷjētos, perfect passive participle of quiēscō (“to rest, repose, lie still”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷiˈeː.tus/, [kʷiˈeːt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwiˈe.tus/, [kwiˈɛːt̪us]

Proper noun

Quiētus m sg (genitive Quiētī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
   1. Titus Avidius Quietus, a Roman senator and consul
   2. Lusius Quietus, a Roman general and governor of Judaea

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Quiētus
Genitive	Quiētī
Dative	Quiētō
Accusative	Quiētum
Ablative	Quiētō
Vocative	Quiēte

Descendants

• → Koine Greek: Κυήτος (Kuḗtos)
  • Greek: Κυήτος (Kyítos)
  • ⇒ English: Kitos

Further reading

• “Quietus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Quietus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Quietus 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)
• Quietus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Quietus in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “Quietus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers