tacitus

== Latin == === Etymology === Perfect passive participle of taceō. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈta.kɪ.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtaː.t͡ʃi.tus] === Participle === tacitus (feminine tacita, neuter tacitum); first/second-declension participle (pass.) that is passed over in silence, not spoken of, kept secret, unmentioned that is done without words, assumed as a matter of course, silent, implied, tacit that is done or exists in silence; secret, hidden, concealed, unnoticed, undetected Synonym: indictus (act. or neut.) that does not speak, not uttering a sound, silent, still, quiet, noiseless, mute ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: tàcit French: tacite English: tacit Italian: tacito Portuguese: tácito Romanian: tacit Spanish: tácito === References === “tacitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tacitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "tacitus", 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) “tacitus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “tacitus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers