taceo
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *takēō, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *teh₂k- (“to be silent”), formerly reconstructed as *tak-. Akin to Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌷𐌰𐌽 (þahan), Old Norse þegja (Danish tie and Icelandic þegja), Old High German dagen.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈta.ke.oː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtaː.t͡ʃe.o]
Verb
[edit]taceō (present infinitive tacēre, perfect active tacuī, supine tacitum); second conjugation
- (intransitive) to be silent, say nothing, shut up, hold one’s tongue
- Synonyms: sileō, conticēscō
- Aut tacē aut face.
- Either shut up or do [it].
- 63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.20:
- Quid est, Catilīna? Ecquid attendis, ecquid animadvertis hōrum silentium? Patiuntur, tacent. Quid exspectās auctōritātem loquentium, quōrum voluntātem tacitōrum perspicis?
- What is it, Catiline? Are you paying any attention, do you observe at all the silence of these [senators]? They permit it, they say nothing. Why do you await the authority of speaking [men], when you clearly perceive the will of [their] silence?
(In other words, no senator dared to speak in Catiline’s defense.)
- What is it, Catiline? Are you paying any attention, do you observe at all the silence of these [senators]? They permit it, they say nothing. Why do you await the authority of speaking [men], when you clearly perceive the will of [their] silence?
- Quid est, Catilīna? Ecquid attendis, ecquid animadvertis hōrum silentium? Patiuntur, tacent. Quid exspectās auctōritātem loquentium, quōrum voluntātem tacitōrum perspicis?
- (intransitive) to be still or at rest
- Synonyms: conquiēscō, conticēscō, sileō, cessō
- (transitive) to leave unsaid, keep quiet, pass over or omit in silence, make no mention of
- Synonyms: sileō, conticēscō
- c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 1.17:
- Tum demum Liscus oratione Caesaris adductus quod antea tacuerat proponit.
- Then at length Liscus, moved by Caesar’s speech, discloses what he had hitherto kept secret.
- Tum demum Liscus oratione Caesaris adductus quod antea tacuerat proponit.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of taceō (second conjugation)
Derived terms
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[edit]References
[edit]- “taceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “taceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “taceo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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