tranquil

Borrowed from Middle French tranquille, from Latin tranquillus.

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæŋ.kwɪl/

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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.

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

• (free from emotional disturbance): agitated

• tranquillity
• tranquillize
• tranquilly
• tranquilness

From Latin tranquillus.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /tɾəŋˈkil/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /tɾaŋˈkil/

tranquil (feminine tranquil·la, masculine plural tranquils, feminine plural tranquil·les)

1. tranquil, calm (free from emotional disturbance)
2. tranquil, calm (without motion or sound)

   Synonym: calm

   Antonym: agitat

• tranquil·lament
• tranquil·litzar

• tranquil·litat

• “tranquil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tranquil” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “tranquil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tranquil” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.