quietus
pronunciation
How to pronounce quietus in British English:
UK [kwaɪˈi:təs]
How to pronounce quietus in American English:
US [kwaɪˈitəs]
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- Noun:
- euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
Word Origin
- quietus (n.)
- "discharge, clearing of accounts," 1530s, short for Medieval Latin phrase quietus est "he is quit" (see quit). Hence, "death" (i.e. "final discharge"), c. 1600. Latin quies also was used for "the peace of death."
Example
- 1. The police gave the villain his quietus .
- 2. After a quietus of twenty years she returned .
- 3. The plan has finally got its quietus , ie been abandoned .
- 4. The quietus of the attacks apparently culminated with the us and uk pirate parties asking for a ddos ceasefire in late november , less than two weeks before wikileaks would suffer their own attacks in an attempt supposedly by a us patriot to halt the leak of the us embassy cables .