requies

See also: réquies

Latin

Etymology

From re- (“again”) + quiēs (“quiet, rest”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈre.kʷi.eːs/, [ˈrɛkʷieːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈre.kwi.es/, [ˈrɛːkwies]

Noun

requiēs f (variously declined, genitive requiētis or requiēī or requiē); third declension, fifth declension

1. rest, repose, respite, cessation
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.433–434:

     “Tempus ināne petō, requiem spatiumque furōrī,
     dum mea mē vīctam doceat fortūna dolēre.”

     “I ask for an empty time, a respite and space for my passion, until my fortune teaches me — defeated — to grieve.”

   Requiem aeternam dōnā eīs, Domine; et lūx perpetua lūceat eīs. (First line of the introit of the w:Requiem mass)

   Grant them eternal rest, Lord; and may perpetual light shine on them.

2. a place of rest

Declension

The singular also attests 5th declension forms.

Third-declension noun or fifth-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	requiēs	requiētēs
Genitive	requiētis requiēī requiē	requiētum
Dative	requiētī requiēī	requiētibus
Accusative	requiētem requiem	requiētēs
Ablative	requiēte requiē	requiētibus
Vocative	requiēs	requiētēs

Descendants

• Old French: recoi
  • Middle French: requoi
• Portuguese: réquie, requiem, réquia
• → English: requiem

References

• “requies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “requies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• requies 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)
• requies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.