뜻

1. 조용하다, 침묵하다
2. 고요하다, 휴식하다
3. 침묵을 지키다, 조용히 지나가다, 조용히 떠나다

1. (intransitive) I am silent, say nothing, hold my tongue.
2. (intransitive) I am still or at rest.
3. (transitive) I leave unsaid, keep quiet, pass over or omit in silence, make no mention of.

예문

• cēterī prīncipēs tacent, sed Ulixēs ‘ego nōn dēspērō,’ inquit; (Oxford Latin Course I, The fall of Troy 9:5)

  나머지 우두머리들은 침묵하지만, Ulixes는 말한다. '난 절망하지 않는다.' (옥스포드 라틴 코스 1권, 9:5)

• Loquentur ei potentissimi robustorum de medio inferni, cum auxiliatoribus eius descenderunt: "Tacent incircumcisi interfecti gladio!". (Biblia Sacra Vulgata, Prophetia Ezechielis, 32 32:21)

  저승 한가운데에서 용사들의 수령들이 부하들과 함께 말하리라. ‘저 할례 받지 않은 자들이, 칼로 살해된 자들이 내려와서 누웠구나.’ (불가타 성경, 에제키엘서, 32장 32:21)

• qui autem ex eodem loco atque ordine tacent, hi vel acerrimi sunt, nam ab omnibus pretium accipiunt et omnis fallunt. (Aulus Gellius, Attic Nights, Liber Undecimus, X 5:3)

  (아울루스 겔리우스, 아테네의 밤, , 5:3)

• Ecce, tacent omnes: (Martial, Epigrammata, book 1, XCVII 98:3)

  (마르티알리스, 에피그램집, 1권, 98:3)

• Cicero propter nimiam modestiam perisse illos ait, dum a finitimis accipiunt iniurias et tacent eas. (Maurus Servius Honoratus, Commentary on the Aeneid of Vergil, SERVII GRAMMATICI IN VERGILII AENEIDOS LIBRVM DECIMVM COMMENTARIVS., commline 564 425:6)

  (마우루스 세르비우스 호노라투스, , , 425:6)

유의어 사전

1. Silere (from ἑλλός) means to be still, σιωπᾶν, in opp. to strepere, Suet. Aug. 94; whereas tacere (from tegere?) means to be silent, σιγᾶν, in opp. to loqui, dicere. And the compound word reticere, if a man has something to say, and keeps it to himself, in opp. to eloqui, proloqui; but obticere, if a man does not speak to one who asks or expects an explanation, in opp. to respondere. Cic. Harusp. 28. Sed tamen facile tacentibus cæteris reticuissem. 2. Tacens and tacitus denote being silent merely as a temporary state; tacens means any one who does not speak; tacitus, one who, when an opportunity for speaking offers, purposely refrains, and observes a significant silence; whereas taciturnus denotes silence as an habitual quality, like close and reserved. (i. 85.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein