silente

Esperanto

Adverb

silente

1. 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)

1. (literary) silent

   Synonyms: calmo, quieto, silenzioso, (literary) tacito, tranquillo

   Antonyms: chiassoso, rumoroso

   • 1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “Ultimo canto di Saffo [Sappho's Last Song]”, in Canti‎^[1], Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 42, lines 68–72:

     […] 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^[2], 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.

2. (literary, rare or humorous) silent, taciturn (of people)

   Synonyms: muto, silenzioso, (literary) tacito, taciturno

   Antonyms: chiacchierone, ciarliero, loquace, verboso

3. (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

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of silēns

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /siˈlẽ.t͡ʃi/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /siˈlẽ.t͡ʃi/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /siˈlẽ.te/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /siˈlẽ.tɨ/

• Hyphenation: si‧len‧te

Adjective

silente m or f (plural silentes)

1. silent
2. quiet

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /siˈlente/ [siˈlẽn̪.t̪e]
• Rhymes: -ente
• Syllabification: si‧len‧te

Adjective

silente m or f (masculine and feminine plural silentes)

1. (formal) silent; noiseless

   Synonyms: silencioso, callado, tranquilo

Further reading

• “silente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10