taire
Meaning
- to be quiet, to be silent
- to shut up (oneself), to be quiet, to fall silent, to stop talking
- to keep (a matter) quiet, to keep secret, not to say
Concepts
shut up
mute
withhold
hush
silence
keep
quiet
suppress
can
hush up
quieten
still
kill
persist
remain
stay
shill
silent
conceal
be quiet
clam up
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/tɛʁ/
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French taire, from Old French taire, remade from the original form taisir (analogically to verbs like plaire, etc., or from the future forms), itself from Latin tacēre, from Proto-Italic *takēō, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *tak- or *tHk-.
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