quieto

quieto

1. neuter of quietu

Learned borrowing from Latin quiētus, perfect passive participle of quiēscō (“I rest”), from quiēs (“rest”). Doublet of quedo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈkjɛtʊ]

quieto (feminine quieta, masculine plural quietos, feminine plural quietas)

1. quiet, still, having little motion or activity

   Synonyms: quedo, inmóbil

   'Ta quietiño, ho! ― Stop it, child! (literally, “stay little calm, [emphatic interjection]!”)

2. tranquil, calm, peaceful

   Synonyms: calmo, plácido, quedo, tranquilo

   Antonyms: inquedo, inquieto, revolto

• poñerse quieto
• quietude

• “quieto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “quieto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “quieto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “quieto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “quieto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkwjɛ.to/, /kwiˈɛ.to/, /ˈkwje.to/, /kwiˈe.to/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛto, -eto
• Hyphenation: quiè‧to, qui‧è‧to, quié‧to, qui‧é‧to

Borrowed from Latin quiētus, from Proto-Italic *kʷiētos, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷyeh₁tos, from the root *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”). Doublet of cheto, which was inherited.

• queto (literary)

quieto (feminine quieta, masculine plural quieti, feminine plural quiete)

1. quiet, calm, peaceful, silent, still

   Synonyms: calmo, tranquillo, silenzioso

   Antonyms: inquieto, agitato, caotico

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

quieto

1. first-person singular present indicative of quietare

• quiētor

From quiētus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kʷiˈeː.toː/, [kʷiˈeːt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kwiˈe.to/, [kwiˈɛːt̪o]

quiētō (present infinitive quiētāre, perfect active quiētāvī, supine quiētātum); first conjugation

1. (post-Classical) to quiet, calm

• “quieto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• quieto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to enjoy peace of mind: quieto, tranquillo, securo animo esse
    

Learned borrowing from Latin quiētus. Doublet of quedo, which was an inherited.

• Rhymes: -ɛtu
• Hyphenation: qui‧e‧to

quieto (feminine quieta, masculine plural quietos, feminine plural quietas, comparable, comparative mais quieto, superlative o mais quieto or quietíssimo)

1. quiet (with little or no sound)
2. quiet (having little motion or activity; calm)
3. quiet (not talking much or not talking loudly; reserved)

• quietude
• inquieto
• irrequieto

Borrowed from Latin quiētus, whence also Spanish quedo, an inherited doublet. Compare English coy and quiet.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkjeto/ [ˈkje.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -eto
• Syllabification: quie‧to

quieto (feminine quieta, masculine plural quietos, feminine plural quietas)

1. calm

   Synonym: tranquilo

2. still

   Synonym: inmóvil

quieto

1. first-person singular present indicative of quietar

• “quieto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014