quietudo

Latin

Etymology

From quiēs (“rest, repose, quiet, calm”) +‎ -tūdō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kʷi.eːˈtuː.doː/, [kʷieːˈt̪uːd̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwi.eˈtu.do/, [kwieˈt̪uːd̪o]

Noun

quiētūdō f (genitive quiētūdinis); third declension

1. (hapax) rest, quietude, calmness

Usage notes

Known in Classical texts from only a single instance.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	quiētūdō	quiētūdinēs
genitive	quiētūdinis	quiētūdinum
dative	quiētūdinī	quiētūdinibus
accusative	quiētūdinem	quiētūdinēs
ablative	quiētūdine	quiētūdinibus
vocative	quiētūdō	quiētūdinēs

Descendants

• Catalan: quietud
• English: quietude
• French: quiétude
• Galician: quietude
• Portuguese: quietude
• Spanish: quietud

References

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