Meaning of taceo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. to be silent, say nothing, shut up, hold one’s tongue
   conjugation-2, intransitive
2. to be still or at rest
   conjugation-2, intransitive
3. to leave unsaid, keep quiet, pass over or omit in silence, make no mention of
   conjugation-2, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Aut tacē aut face.”

Either shut up or do [it].

“Nōn tacēs? - Nōn taceō!”

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

“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.)

“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.

“Quisquis is est—nam nōmen adhūc utcumque tacēbō—”

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

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