tacitus
Latin
Etymology
Perfect passive participle of taceō.
Participle
tacitus (feminine tacita, neuter tacitum); first/second-declension participle
- (pass.) that is passed over in silence, not spoken of, kept secret, unmentioned
- (act. or neut.) that does not speak, not uttering a sound, silent, still, quiet, noiseless, mute
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | tacitus | tacita | tacitum | tacitī | tacitae | tacita | |
| Genitive | tacitī | tacitae | tacitī | tacitōrum | tacitārum | tacitōrum | |
| Dative | tacitō | tacitō | tacitīs | ||||
| Accusative | tacitum | tacitam | tacitum | tacitōs | tacitās | tacita | |
| Ablative | tacitō | tacitā | tacitō | tacitīs | |||
| Vocative | tacite | tacita | tacitum | tacitī | tacitae | tacita | |
Descendants
- Catalan: tàcit
- French: tacite
- English: tacit
- Italian: tacito
- Portuguese: tácito
- Romanian: tacit
- Spanish: tácito
References
- “tacitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tacitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tacitus 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)
- tacitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “tacitus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers