silente
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[edit]Adverb
[edit]silente
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin silentem, present active participle of sileō (“to be silent”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]silente (plural silenti)
- (literary) silent
- Synonyms: calmo, quieto, silenzioso, (literary) tacito, tranquillo
- Antonyms: chiassoso, rumoroso
- 1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “Ultimo canto di Saffo [Sappho's Last Song]”, in Canti[1], Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 42, lines 68–72:
- […] Ecco di tante
sperate palme e dilettosi errori,
il Tartaro m’avanza; e il prode ingegno
han la tenaria diva,
e l’atra notte, e la silente riva.- See, Tartarus is left of all the prizes hoped for, the sweet illusions: and the dark goddess, black night, and the silent shore confine the proud intellect.
- 1850, Giosuè Carducci, Juvenilia[2], Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 121:
- Fin che dinanzi a lui tra le ruine
Barbariche e la polve
Fumò il vigor de le virtú latine,
E tutto quel che una ruina involve
Ferí l’aura silente
Di un grido alto e possente.- Until, in front of him, among the barbarian ruins and the dust, the vigor of the Latin virtues smoked, and all that a ruin brings along wounded the silent air with a loud, powerful yell.
- (literary, rare or humorous) silent, taciturn (of people)
- Synonyms: muto, silenzioso, (literary) tacito, taciturno
- Antonyms: chiacchierone, ciarliero, loquace, verboso
- (genetics) silent (not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence)
- Antonym: attivo
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- silente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Participle
[edit]silente
Portuguese
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: si‧len‧te
Adjective
[edit]silente m or f (plural silentes)
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]silente m or f (masculine and feminine plural silentes)
Further reading
[edit]- “silente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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