tacitus

tacitus is a Latin form of taceo, meaning “be silent, say nothing; leave unsaid, keep quiet about; (tacitus) silent”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 122 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.3.41: … tani nomine; deinde aude te dicere diligentem. ingenio? qui testis interrogare priore actione nolueris et iis tacitus os tuum praebere malueris, quamvis et te et patronos tuos ingeniosos esse dicito. quare igitur id quod ais ad …

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 2.11.2: … us Priscus accusantibus Afris quibus pro consule praefuit, omissa defensione iudices petiit. Ego et Cornelius Tacitus, adesse provincialibus iussi, existimavimus fidei nostrae convenire notum senatui facere excessisse Priscum i …

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.