quieta

quieta is a Latin form of quiesco, meaning “rest, keep quiet; sleep; cease”.

It can also be a form of quies, “rest, repose; quiet, peace; sleep”.

It can also be a form of quietus, “at rest, quiet, calm, peaceful”. It is the nominative singular feminine adjective or perfect passive participle nominative singular feminine or perfect passive participle vocative singular feminine or accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 62 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 7.1.1: Quieta Gallia Caesar, ut constituerat, in Italiam ad conventus agendos proficiscitur. Ibi cognoscit de Clodii caede [de] senatusque consulto certior factus, ut omnes iuniores Italiae coniurarent, delectum tota provincia habere instituit.

Caesar, De Bello Civili 3.94: Eodem tempore tertiam aciem Caesar, quae quieta fuerat et se ad id tempus loco tenuerat, procurrere iussit. Ita cum recentes atque integri defessis successis …

All forms of quiesco (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.