requies

From re- (“again”) + quiēs (“quiet, rest”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛ.kʷi.eːs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛː.kʷi.es]

requiēs f (genitive requiētis or requiēī or requiē); variously declined, third declension, fifth declension

1. rest, repose, respite, cessation
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.433–434:

     “Tempus ināne petō, requiem spatiumque furōrī,
     dum mea mē vīctam doceat fortūna dolēre.”

     “I ask for an empty time, a respite and space for my passion, until my fortune teaches me — defeated — to grieve.”

   Requiem aeternam dōnā eīs, Domine; et lūx perpetua lūceat eīs. (First line of the introit of the w:Requiem mass)

   Grant them eternal rest, Lord; and may perpetual light shine on them.

2. a place of rest

The singular also attests 5th declension forms.

Third-declension noun or fifth-declension noun.

• “requies”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “requies”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "requies", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “requies”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.