tranquil

English

WOTD – 17 October 2009

Etymology

Borrowing from Middle French tranquille, from Latin tranquillus.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæŋ.kwɪl/

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Adjective

tranquil (comparative tranquiler, superlative tranquilest)

1. Free from emotional or mental disturbance.
   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, chapter XXVIII

     Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me.

2. Calm; without motion or sound.
   • 1921, Douglas Wilson Johnson, Battlefields of the World War, Western and Southern Fronts: A Study in Military Geography, page 262:

     […] that the streams which did form were clear and tranquil because fed by perennial springs from the underground supply; and that in their tranquil waters extensive peat bogs formed.

Synonyms

• (free from emotional disturbance): calm, peaceful, serene, steady
• (calm; without motion or sound): peaceful

Antonyms

• (free from emotional disturbance): agitated

Related terms

• tranquillity
• tranquillize
• tranquilly
• tranquilness

Translations

free from emotional disturbance

• Danish: rolig (da), stille (da)
• French: tranquille (fr)
• Galician: tranquilo (gl)
• Irish: suaimhneach
• Italian: tranquillo (it), sereno (it), calmo (it)
• Latgalian: romons m, mīrons m
• Latvian: rāms (lv) m, mierīgs m
• Norwegian Bokmål: rolig (no)
• Norwegian Nynorsk: roleg

• Polish: spokojny (pl)
• Portuguese: tranquilo (pt), calmo (pt)
• Russian: споко́йный (ru) (spokójnyj), уравнове́шенный (ru) (uravnovéšennyj), ми́рный (ru) (mírnyj), безмятежный (ru) (bezmjatežnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: foiseil, suaimhneach
• Slovene: spokojen m, spokojna f, spokojno n
• Spanish: tranquilo (es)
• Swedish: lugn (sv)
• Walloon: påjhûle (wa) m, f, påjhire (wa) m, f, trankile (wa) m, f

calm; without motion or sound

• Danish: rolig (da), stille (da)
• French: tranquille (fr)
• Galician: tranquilo (gl), quieto (gl)
• Italian: calmo (it), pacifico (it), quieto (it)
• Norwegian Bokmål: rolig (no)
• Norwegian Nynorsk: roleg

• Polish: cichy (pl)
• Portuguese: tranquilo (pt), calmo (pt)
• Russian: ти́хий (ru) (tíxij), споко́йный (ru) (spokójnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: foiseil, suaimhneach
• Spanish: tranquilo (es), apacible (es)
• Walloon: påjhûle (wa) m, f, påjhire (wa) m, f, coey (wa) m, trankile (wa) m, f

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: rustig (nl)
• Finnish: rauhallinen (fi), tyyni (fi)
• German: ruhig (de)

• Portuguese: tranquilo (pt)
• Swedish: lugn (sv)