taceoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈta.ke.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈt̪aː.t͡ʃe.o]

動詞

taceō (present infinitive tacēre, perfect active tacuī, supine tacitum); second conjugation

1. (intransitive) to be silent, say nothing, shut up, hold one’s tongue

   Synonyms: sileō, conticēscō

   Aut tacē aut face.

   Either shut up or do [it].

   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Curculio 5.3.5:

     Nōn tacēs? - Nōn taceō!

     Hold your tongue, will you? - I will not!

   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.20:

     Quid est, Catilīna? Ecquid attendis, ecquid animadvertis hōrum silentium? Patiuntur, tacent. Quid exspectās auctōritātem loquentium, quōrum voluntātem tacitōrum perspicis?

     What is it, Catiline? Are you paying any attention, do you observe at all the silence of these [senators]? They permit it, they say nothing. Why do you await the authority of speaking [men], when you clearly perceive the will of [their] silence?
     (In other words, no senator dared to speak in Catiline’s defense.)

2. (intransitive) to be still or at rest

   Synonyms: conquiēscō, conticēscō, sileō, cessō

3. (transitive) to leave unsaid, keep quiet, pass over or omit in silence, make no mention of

   Synonyms: sileō, conticēscō

   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.17:

     Tum demum Liscus oratione Caesaris adductus quod antea tacuerat proponit.

     Then at length Liscus, moved by Caesar’s speech, discloses what he had hitherto kept secret.

   • 9 CE, Ovid, The Ibis 9–10:

     Quisquis is est—nam nōmen adhūc utcumque tacēbō—
         cōgit inassuētās sūmere tēla manūs.

     Whoever he is, for the name I am still going to omit,
         he forces my unaccustomed hands to take weapons.

Conjugation

派生語

関連する語

• tacitulus
• taciturnitās
• taciturnus

派生した語

参照

• “taceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “taceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “taceo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.