tacitus

Perfect passive participle of taceō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ki.tus/, [ˈt̪äkɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.t͡ʃi.tus/, [ˈt̪äːt͡ʃit̪us]

tacitus (feminine tacita, neuter tacitum); first/second-declension participle

1. (pass.) that is passed over in silence, not spoken of, kept secret, unmentioned
2. that is done without words, assumed as a matter of course, silent, implied, tacit
3. that is done or exists in silence; secret, hidden, concealed, unnoticed, undetected

   Synonym: indictus

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.288-290:

     Mnestheā Sergestumque vocat fortemque Serestum:
     Classem aptent tacitī sociōsque ad lītora cōgant,
     arma parent [...].

     [Aeneas] summons Mnestheus, Sergestus, and brave Serestus: They are to fit out the fleet, unnoticed, and gather the crews on shore, weapons readied.
     (Interpreting “taciti” in context: Conceal the activity, attract no attention, make not a sound, tell no one.)

4. (act. or neut.) that does not speak, not uttering a sound, silent, still, quiet, noiseless, mute

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• Catalan: tàcit
• French: tacite
  • English: tacit
• Italian: tacito
• Portuguese: tácito
• Romanian: tacit
• Spanish: tácito

• “tacitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tacitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tacitus 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)
• tacitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “tacitus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers