silentium

== Latin == === Etymology === From silēns (“quiet, silent”) + -ium. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [sɪˈɫɛn.ti.ũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [siˈlɛn.t͡si.um] === Noun === silentium n (genitive silentiī or silentī); second declension silence, stillness, quiet, noiselessness obscurity inaction, inactivity, cessation, standstill ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). 1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age). ==== Synonyms ==== (silence): taciturnitās ==== Derived terms ==== argumentum ex silentio silentiārius silentiōsus silentium est aurum ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “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, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “silentium”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.