taciturnitas

From taciturnus +‎ -tās.

taciturnitās f (genitive taciturnitātis); third declension

1. silence (keeping silent), taciturnity
   • 63 BCE, Cicero, Catiline Orations Oratio in Catilinam Prima in Senatu Habita.16:

     Sī hoc post hominum memoriam contigit nēminī, vōcis exspectās contumēliam, cum sīs gravissimō iūdiciō taciturnitātis oppressus?

     If this, in the memory of [any] man, has happened to no one [else], do you await the insult of [my] voice, since you have been overwhelmed by the most severe judgment of silence?
     (Cicero implies that on this day no senators greeted or otherwise spoke with Catiline in the assembly.)

Third-declension noun.

• “taciturnitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “taciturnitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "taciturnitas", 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)
• “taciturnitas”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.