silente

silente

1. silently

Borrowed from Latin silentem, present active participle of sileō (“to be silent”).

• IPA^(key): /siˈlɛn.te/
• Rhymes: -ɛnte
• Hyphenation: si‧lèn‧te

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, 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, 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

• silentemente

• silenzio
• silenzioso

• silente in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• leniste

silente

1. ablative masculine/feminine/neuter singular of silēns

• Hyphenation: si‧len‧te

silente m or f (plural silentes)

1. silent
2. quiet

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

silente m or f (masculine and feminine plural silentes)

1. (formal) silent; noiseless

   Synonyms: silencioso, callado, tranquilo

• “silente”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014