Tacitus

See also: tacitus and TACITUS

Translingual

Graptopetalum bellum (syn. of Tacitus bellus, Chihuahua flower)

Etymology

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Proper noun

Tacitus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Crassulaceae – a stonecrop, Chihuahua flower, now included in Graptopetalum.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots – clades; Saxifragales – order; Crassulaceae – family; Sedoideae - subfamily; Sedeae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Tacitus bellus - sole species; (now Graptopetalum bellum (Chihuahua flower))

References

• Graptopetalum bellum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sedinae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Graptopetalum bellum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Tacitus at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Graptopetalum bellum at Tropicos
• Tacitus bellus at Germplasm Resources Information Network

English

Etymology

Latin Tacitus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæsɪtʊs/

Proper noun

Tacitus

1. A Roman cognomen, notably borne by Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c.56–117), a historian of ancient Rome and Marcus Claudius Tacitus (c.200–275), a Roman emperor.
2. A lunar impact crater.

Derived terms

• Tacitan, Tacitian

Translations

Roman cognomen

• Armenian: Տակիտոս (Takitos)

  Old Armenian: Տակիտոս (Takitos)

• Catalan: Tàcit m
• French: Tacite (fr)
• German: Tacitus m, Tazitus m
• Greek: Τάκιτος (el) m (Tákitos)
• Italian: Tacito (it) m
• Latin: Tacitus m
• Polish: Tacyt m
• Portuguese: Tácito m
• Russian: Таци́т m (Tacít)
• Spanish: Tácito m
• Welsh: Tegid m

Anagrams

• Atticus, catsuit

Latin

Etymology

From tacitus (“silent”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ki.tus/, [ˈt̪äkɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.t͡ʃi.tus/, [ˈt̪äːt͡ʃit̪us]

Proper noun

Tacitus m sg (genitive Tacitī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen, notably borne by Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c.56-117), a historian of ancient Rome and Marcus Claudius Tacitus (c.200-275), a Roman emperor.

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Tacitus
genitive	Tacitī
dative	Tacitō
accusative	Tacitum
ablative	Tacitō
vocative	Tacite

References

• “Tacitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Tacitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.