silentium

From silēns (“quiet, silent”) +‎ -ium.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /siˈlen.ti.um/, [s̠ɪˈɫ̪ɛn̪t̪iʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /siˈlen.t͡si.um/, [siˈlɛnt̪͡s̪ium]

silentium n (genitive silentiī or silentī); second declension

1. silence, stillness, quiet, noiselessness

   Fac silentium!

   Be quiet!

   Silentio facto.

   With silence being obtained.

   De Partho silentium est.

   Nothing is said about the Parthian.

2. obscurity
3. inaction, inactivity, cessation, standstill

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

• (silence): taciturnitās

• argumentum ex silentio
• silentiārius
• silentiōsus
• silentium est aurum

• “silentium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “silentium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• silentium 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)
• silentium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • in the silence of the night: silentio noctis
    
  • to pass over in silence: silentio praeterire (not praetermittere) aliquid