tranquillitas

Latin

Etymology

From tranquillus (“quiet, calm, still, tranquil”) +‎ -tās.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /tranˈkʷil.li.taːs/, [t̪räŋˈkʷɪlːʲɪt̪äːs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /tranˈkwil.li.tas/, [t̪räŋˈkwilːit̪äs]

Noun

tranquillitās f (genitive tranquillitātis); third declension

1. quietness, calmness, stillness, tranquillity, serenity

   Synonyms: otium, pax, quies, serenitas, tranquillum

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tranquillitās	tranquillitātēs
genitive	tranquillitātis	tranquillitātum
dative	tranquillitātī	tranquillitātibus
accusative	tranquillitātem	tranquillitātēs
ablative	tranquillitāte	tranquillitātibus
vocative	tranquillitās	tranquillitātēs

Related terms

• tranquillē
• tranquillō
• tranquillum
• tranquillus

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: tranquil·litat
• → English: tranquility
• → French: tranquillité
• → Galician: tranquilidade
• → Italian: tranquillità
• → Occitan: tranquillitat
• → Portuguese: tranquilidade
• → Romanian: tranchilitate
• → Spanish: tranquilidad

References

• “tranquillitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tranquillitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• tranquillitas 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)
• tranquillitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a dead calm: malacia et tranquillitas (B. G. 3. 15)