Quietus

See also: quietus

Latin

Etymology

From quiētus (quiet, calm, at rest) from Proto-Italic *kʷjētos, perfect passive participle of quiēscō (to rest, repose, lie still).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Quiētus m sg (genitive Quiētī); second declension

  1. A Roman cognomen — famously held by:
    1. Titus Avidius Quietus, a Roman senator and consul
    2. Lusius Quietus, a Roman general and governor of Judaea

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Quiētus
genitive Quiētī
dative Quiētō
accusative Quiētum
ablative Quiētō
vocative Quiēte

Descendants

  • Koine Greek: Κυήτος (Kuḗtos)
    • Greek: Κυήτος (Kyítos)
    • English: Kitos

Further reading

  • 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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • Quietus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Quietus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
  • Quietus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers