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tacere

tacere is a Latin form of taceo, meaning “be silent, say nothing; leave unsaid, keep quiet about; (tacitus) silent”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 106 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 32: etenim quis tam dissoluto animo est qui haec cum videat tacere ac neglegere possit? patrem meum, cum proscriptus non esset, iugulastis, occisum in proscriptorum numerum ret …

Seneca the Younger, Oedipus 523: Tacere liceat, ulla libertas minor

All forms of taceo (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.