silente
Esperanto
Adverb
silente
- silently
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin silentem, present active participle of sileō (“to be silent”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /siˈlɛn.te/
- Rhymes: -ɛnte
- Hyphenation: si‧lèn‧te
Adjective
silente (plural silenti)
- (literary) silent
- Synonyms: calmo, quieto, silenzioso, (literary) tacito, tranquillo
- Antonyms: chiassoso, rumoroso
- 1835, Giacomo Leopardi, “Ultimo canto di Saffo [Sappho's Last Song]”, in Canti, Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, lines 68–72, page 42:
- […] Ecco di tante
sperate palme e dilettosi errori,
il Tartaro m’avanza; e il prode ingegno
han la tenaria diva,
e l’atra notte, e la silente riva.- See, Tartarus is left of all the prizes hoped for, the sweet illusions: and the dark goddess, black night, and the silent shore confine the proud intellect.
- 1850, Giosuè Carducci, Juvenilia, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 121:
- Fin che dinanzi a lui tra le ruine
Barbariche e la polve
Fumò il vigor de le virtú latine,
E tutto quel che una ruina involve
Ferí l’aura silente
Di un grido alto e possente.- Until, in front of him, among the barbarian ruins and the dust, the vigor of the Latin virtues smoked, and all that a ruin brings along wounded the silent air with a loud, powerful yell.
- (literary, rare or humorous) silent, taciturn (of people)
- Synonyms: muto, silenzioso, (literary) tacito, taciturno
- Antonyms: chiacchierone, ciarliero, loquace, verboso
- (genetics) silent (not implying significant modifications which would affect a peptide sequence)
- Antonym: attivo
Derived terms
- silentemente
Related terms
- silenzio
- silenzioso
Further reading
- silente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
- leniste
Latin
Participle
silente
- ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of silēns
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /siˈlẽ.t͡ʃi/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /siˈlẽ.te/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /siˈlẽ.t(ɨ)/
- Hyphenation: si‧len‧te
Adjective
silente m or f (plural silentes)
- silent
- quiet
Spanish
Adjective
silente (plural silentes)
- (formal) silent; noiseless
Further reading
- “silente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014