tranquillus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from an earlier *trānsquīlus (with quantitative metathesis), from trāns- + the root of quiēs.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /tranˈkʷil.lus/, [t̪räŋˈkʷɪlːʲʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /tranˈkwil.lus/, [t̪räŋˈkwilːus]
Adjective
[edit]tranquillus (feminine tranquilla, neuter tranquillum, adverb tranquillē or tranquillō); first/second-declension adjective
- (of the weather or similar) quiet, calm, still, tranquil
- Synonyms: misericors, mītis, placidus, quiētus, clēmēns
- Antonyms: obstreperus, clāmātōrius, trux, ferōx, atrōx, silvāticus, violēns, ācer
- (of a person) placid, composed, untroubled, undisturbed
Declension
[edit]First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | tranquillus | tranquilla | tranquillum | tranquillī | tranquillae | tranquilla | |
| genitive | tranquillī | tranquillae | tranquillī | tranquillōrum | tranquillārum | tranquillōrum | |
| dative | tranquillō | tranquillae | tranquillō | tranquillīs | |||
| accusative | tranquillum | tranquillam | tranquillum | tranquillōs | tranquillās | tranquilla | |
| ablative | tranquillō | tranquillā | tranquillō | tranquillīs | |||
| vocative | tranquille | tranquilla | tranquillum | tranquillī | tranquillae | tranquilla | |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: tranquil
- → English: tranquil
- → Esperanto: trankvila
- → French: tranquille
- → Italian: tranquillo
- → Portuguese: tranquilo
- → Romanian: tranchil
- → Sicilian: tranquillu
- → Spanish: tranquilo
References
[edit]- “tranquillus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “tranquillus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- tranquillus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “tranquillus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Julius Pokorny (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, in 3 vols, Bern, München: Francke Verlag
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 627