Latin

Verb

taceō ‎(present infinitive tacēre, perfect active tacuī, supine tacitum); second conjugation

1. (intransitive) I am silent, say nothing, hold my tongue.
   • c. 254 BCE – 184 BCE, Plautus, Curculio 5.3.5

     Non taces? - Non taceo!^[1]

     Hold your tongue, will you? - I will not!^[2]

2. (intransitive) I am still or at rest.
3. (transitive) I leave unsaid, keep quiet, pass over or omit in silence, make no mention of.

Inflection

Derived terms

Related terms

• tacitulus
• taciturnitās
• taciturnus

Descendants

References

• taceo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• taceo in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “taceo”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

1. ↑ Latin
2. ↑ English