inquiet

Borrowed from Latin inquietare: compare French inquiéter. See quiet.

• IPA^(key): /ɪŋˈkwaɪət/

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inquiet (third-person singular simple present inquiets, present participle inquieting, simple past and past participle inquieted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To disquiet.
   • 1530-1531, King Henry VIII, Public Act 22:

     His saide subiectes […] shall [not] be sued, vexed, nor inquieted in theyr bodies goodes landes nor cattalles

• quiet

• “inquiet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from Latin inquiētus.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [iŋ.kiˈet]

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inquiet (feminine inquieta, masculine plural inquiets, feminine plural inquietes)

1. worried

   Synonym: neguitós

• inquietar
• inquietud
• quiet

From Middle French inquiet (16th c.), a borrowing from Latin inquiētus. Earlier was the verb inquiéter (12th c.). By surface analysis, in- +‎ quiet.

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.kjɛ/

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inquiet (feminine inquiète, masculine plural inquiets, feminine plural inquiètes)

1. worried
2. anxious

• inquiéter
• inquiétude

• coi
• quiet
• quitte

• “inquiet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɪŋ.kʷi.ɛt]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiŋ.kʷi.et]

inquiet

1. third-person singular future active indicative of inquam