quietus

Borrowed from Latin quiētus (“at rest”). Doublet of quiet.

• enPR: kwī.ēʹtəs

quietus (usually uncountable, plural quietuses)

1. A stillness or pause; something that quiets or represses; removal from activity.
   • c. 1600, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Act III, Scene 1:

     […] when he might himself his quietus make with a bare bodkin?

2. (figuratively) Death.
   • 1886, Henry James, The Bostonians.

     Olive's specific terrors and dangers had by this time very much blown over; Basil Ransom had given no sign of life for ages, and Henry Burrage had certainly got his quietus before they went to Europe.

3. Final settlement (e.g., of a debt).

• quiescence
• quiet
• quietude

• tiuques

Perfect passive participle of quiēscō (“repose, lie still”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷiˈeː.tus/, [kᶣiˈeː.tʊs]

quiētus m (feminine quiēta, neuter quiētum); first/second declension

1. at rest/nap, quiet, keeping quiet.
2. peaceful, neutral.
3. tranquil, calm.
4. excused, absolved of

First/second declension.

• quietō

• quietus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quietus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quietus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• quietus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to lay oneself down to slee: somno or quieti se tradere
    
  • in a dream: per quietem, in quiete
    
  • to remain inactive in camp: se (quietum) tenere castris
    
• quietus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers