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silentus

silent

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Where it lives

Medea 1 · 1.77/10k
Carminum minorum corpusculum 1 · 1.18/10k
Hercules Oetaeus 1 · 0.89/10k
Metamorphoses 4 · 0.52/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Silvae 1 · 0.4/10k
Pharsalia 2 · 0.39/10k
Fasti 1 · 0.32/10k
Argonautica 1 · 0.27/10k
Thebais 1 · 0.16/10k
Aeneid 1 · 0.16/10k
Punica 1 · 0.13/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. silentus — de Vaan

silentus 'silent' (Laev. apud Gell.), consilescere 'to fall silent' (Pl+). Pit. *silo- 'quiet, silent', *si!e- 'to be quiet, silent'. silex PIE *sh|/2i-lo- 'silent'. IE cognates: Go. ana-silan 'to become quiet* (pret.3s. so winds anasilaida 'the wind dropped') < *sz7-e-, OE salnas(s) [f ] 'silence' < *sail-. WH and EM assume that the original meaning may have been 'to come to rest' rather than just 'to remain … — [de Vaan, s.v. silentus, p. 577]

2. sĭlentus — Lewis & Short

sĭlentus, a, um, adj.sileo,

I silent, quiet: loca, Laev. ap. Gell. 19, 7, 7.

In the wild

silentum Claudian, Carminum minorum corpusculum 52.45
silentum Silius Italicus, Punica 13.521
silentum Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 1.750
silentum Ovid, Metamorphoses 15.772
silentum Lucan, Pharsalia 3.29
silentum Statius, Silvae 2.7.121

6 of 17 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. silentus (scan pp. 577-578; entry #1632). Root candidates: *silo-, *sail-, *shii-.

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