silentium

From silēns (“quiet, silent”) +‎ -ium.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /siˈlen.ti.um/, [sɪˈɫɛn.ti.ũ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /siˈlen.t͡si.um/

silentium n (genitive silentiī); second declension

1. silence, stillness, quiet, noiselessness

   Fac silentium!

   Be quiet!

   Silentio facto.

   With silence being obtained.

   De Partho silentium est.

   Nothing is said about the Parthian.

2. obscurity
3. inaction, inactivity, cessation, standstill

Second declension.

• (silence): taciturnitās

• argumentum ex silentio
• silentiārius
• silentiōsus
• silentium est aurum

• French: silence
  • English: silence (borrowed)
• Spanish: silencio
• Italian: silenzio
• Old Portuguese: silencio
  • Portuguese: silêncio

• silentium in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• silentium in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• silentium in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• silentium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • in the silence of the night: silentio noctis
    
  • to pass over in silence: silentio praeterire (not praetermittere) aliquid