inquiet

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inquietare: compare French inquieter. See quiet.

Verb

inquiet (third-person singular simple present inquiets, present participle inquieting, simple past and past participle inquieted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To disquiet.

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Related terms

• quiet

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “inquiet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inquiētus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencian) [iŋ.kiˈet]

Adjective

inquiet (feminine inquieta, masculine plural inquiets, feminine plural inquietes)

1. worried

Related terms

• inquietar
• inquietud
• quiet

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin inquiētus. Synchronically analysable as in- +‎ quiet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kjɛ/

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Adjective

inquiet (feminine inquiète, masculine plural inquiets, feminine plural inquiètes)

1. worried
2. anxious

Derived terms

• inquiéter
• inquiétude

Related terms

• coi
• quiet
• quitte

Further reading

• “inquiet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.