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quiesco

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Latin

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Etymology

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From quiēs (rest, repose; quiet) +‎ -scō.

Pronunciation

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Aulus Gellius (Noctes Atticae, c. 177) reports that in the usual pronunciation of his time, the "e" was short; a friend of his justified this pronunciation by appeal to common usage when challenged by another friend who argued that it should be long by analogy with the long ē in calescit, nitescit, stupescit and in quiēs. On the other hand, there is inscriptional evidence of long "e" in this word in the form of inscriptions which mark it with an apex (CIL VI.6250 and 25521.)[1]

Verb

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quiēscō (present infinitive quiēscere, perfect active quiēvī, supine quiētum); third conjugation, no passive

  1. to rest, sleep, repose
    Synonyms: cessō, dormiō, conquiēscō, requiēscō, acquiēscō
  2. to cause to cease, stop, render quiet
  3. (especially of inanimate objects) to be still or quiet, lie still
  4. to remain neutral, abstain from action, keep quiet, stand by
  5. (in speech) to make a pause
  6. (figuratively) to suffer or allow quietly; permit
    Synonym: cōnīveō
  7. (figuratively) to cease, leave off or desist from something
    Synonyms: cessō, subsistō, dēsistō, remittō, dēsinō, sistō, conticēscō, trānseō
    Antonyms: coepiō, incohō, incipiō

Conjugation

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1At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Franco-Provençal: queissier
  • Romansch: quescher ("be silent")[2]
  • Sicilian: quèscere (“satisfy the body”, Manduriano dialect)[3]
  • English: quiesce, quiescent

References

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  1. ^ Gellius, Attic Nights, Book VII. Translated by J. C. Rolfe. First published with notes in Vol. II of the Loeb Classical Library edition, 1927. Republished online at LacusCurtius by Bill Thayer. Note 51.
  2. ^ Dworkin, Steven N. 2016. Lexical stability and shared lexicon. In Ledgeway, Adam & Maiden, Martin (eds.), The Oxford guide to the Romance languages, 577–587. Oxford University Press.
  3. ^ Rohlfs, Gerard (1966) Grammatica storica della lingua italiana e dei suoi dialetti, volume I (Fonetica), Turin: Einaudi, page 221:Davanti a vocale palatale, invece, l’antico suono è rimasto conservato soltanto in casi del tutto sporadici: cfr. nella Valsesia piemontese ku̯è < quid [...]; nel salentino (Manduria) quèscere ‘saziare il corpo’ (quiescere).
  • quiesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • quiesco”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • quiesco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.