tacit
pronunciation
How to pronounce tacit in British English:
UK [ˈtæsɪt]
How to pronounce tacit in American English:
US [ˈtæsɪt]
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- Adjective:
- indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly
Word Origin
- tacit
- tacit: [17] Tacit was adapted from Latin tacitus, the past participle of tacēre ‘be silent’. Another derivative of this was Latin taciturnus, from which English gets taciturn [18]; and tacēre also lies behind English reticent.=> reticent, taciturn
- tacit (adj.)
- c. 1600, "silent, unspoken," from French tacite and directly from Latin tacitus "that is passed over in silence, done without words, assumed as a matter of course, silent," past participle of tacere "be silent, not speak," from suffixed form of PIE root *tak- "to be silent" (cognates: Gothic þahan, Old Norse þegja "to be silent," Old Norse þagna "to grow dumb," Old Saxon thagian, Old High German dagen "to be silent"). The musical instruction tacet is the 3rd person present singular of the Latin verb. Related: Tacitly.
Example
- 1. Relational tacit knowledge will also always be with us .
- 2. Take away tacit knowledge and the human world disappears .
- 3. Analysis of withholding and tacit collusion behavior of power suppliers .
- 4. But it seems the two of them have some sort of tacit agreement on china policy .
- 5. The suspicion is that at least some banks were submitting low libor estimates with tacit permission from their regulators .