quies

Asturian

Verb

quies

1. second-person singular present indicative of querer

Latin

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁-

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéh₁tis

Proto-Italic *kʷjētis

Latin quiēs

From Proto-Italic *kʷjētis, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyéh₁-ti-s, from the root *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”).

Cognates include Avestan 𐬱𐬁𐬌𐬙𐬌- (šāⁱti-, “happiness”), Old Persian [script needed] (šiyāti-, “luck”), Old Armenian հանգչիմ (hangčʻim). See also tranquillus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷi.eːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷiː.es]

Noun

quiēs f (genitive quiētis); third declension

1. the rest of sleep, repose
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 4.4-5:

     [...] nec placidam membrīs dat cūra quiētem.

     [The thought of Aeneas] grants no stillness to [Dido’s] limbs, nor rest from her worries.

   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 4.667–668:

     excutitur terrōre quiēs: Numa vīsa revolvit
     et sēcum ambāgēs caecaque iussa refert

     Rest is being driven out by terror: Numa ponders the visions,
     and within himself he recalls the ambiguities and obscure commands.
     (King Numa Pompilius is startled awake after dreaming of how to appease Demeter/Ceres (mythology) and restore prosperity to the farmers.)

2. quiet, calm, lull, peace, cessation from labor

   Synonyms: otium, tranquillitas, serenitas, pax

   Antonyms: rebellio, seditio, turba, inquies, concursus, perculsus, tumultus

3. (figurative) dream

   per quiētem

   through/in a dream

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	quiēs	quiētēs
genitive	quiētis	quiētum
dative	quiētī	quiētibus
accusative	quiētem	quiētēs
ablative	quiēte	quiētibus
vocative	quiēs	quiētēs

Derived terms

• requiēs

Related terms

• quiēscō

Descendants

• → Interlingua: quiete
• → Italian: quiete

References

• “quies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “quies”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • in a dream: per quietem, in quiete
    
• “quies”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “quies”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “quiet”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010), Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 388

Etymology 2

See above.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷi.eːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈkʷiː.es]

Adjective

quiēs (genitive quiētis, comparative quiētior, superlative quiētissimus, adverb quiētē); third-declension one-termination adjective

1. (Old Latin) alternative form of quiētus
   • c. 270 BCE – c. 201 BCE, Gnaeus Naevius, Bellum Punicum 2:

     Iamque eius mentem Fortūna fēcerat quiētem.

     And now Fortune made his mind relaxed.

Declension

Third-declension one-termination adjective.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	quiēs			quiētēs	quiētia
genitive	quiētis			quiētium
dative	quiētī			quiētibus
accusative	quiētem	quiēs		quiētīs quiētēs	quiētia
ablative	quiētī quiēte			quiētibus
vocative	quiēs			quiētēs	quiētia

See also

• inquiēs

References

• “quies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quies”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.