Quietus

Definition: Quietus

Quietus

Noun

1. Euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb); "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep".

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Date "quietus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references)

Etymology: Quietus \Qui*e"tus\, noun. [from Late Latin expression quietus quit, discharged, L., at rest, quiet, dead. See Quiet, adjective, and compare to Quit,]. (Websters 1913)

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Literature

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Synonyms: Quietus

Abrogation

Be abrogated; receive its quietus; walk the plank.

Acquittal

Noun: acquittal, acquitment; clearance, exculpation; acquittance, clearance, exoneration; discharge; (release); quietus, absolution, compurgation, reprieve, respite; pardon; (forgiveness).

Death

Noun: death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, morbidity.

Failure

Repulse, rebuff, defeat, rout, overthrow, discomfiture; beating, drubbing; quietus, nonsuit, subjugation; checkmate, stalemate, fool's mate.

Killing

Shoot dead; blow one's brains out; brain, knock on the head; stone, lapidate; give a deathblow; deal a deathblow; give a quietus, give a coupe de grace.

Deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus; execution. (capital punishment); judicial murder; martyrdom.

Crosswords: Quietus

Latin (at rest, be at peace, be inactive, calm, coy, free, idle, keep quiet, neutral, orderly, peaceful, permit, quiet, quit, rest, resting, sleep, sleeping, still, tranquil, undisturbed / neutral / quiet).

Books

• Quietus (reference)

• Temple of the Quietus Children (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Quietus (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Expressions using "quietus": give a quietus ♦ give smb. his quietus ♦ receive its quietus. Additional references.

Albanian

vdekje (bane, death, decease, departure, dissolution, doom, dying, exit, fate), fund (back, base, bed, bottom, death, decease, decline, doom, end, ending, epilogue, extremity, finality, finish, foot, foundation, ground, Omega, petticoat, rock bottom, skirt, sole, stub, tag, tail, tailpiece, terminal, termination). (various references)

Arabic 

‏موت (bane, death, decease, demise, dissolution, ending, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, passing), ‏سداد الدين (quittance, rebate, redemption, refund), ‏ضربة قاضية (deathblow, knockdown, knockout). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уреждане на дълг (liquidation, satisfaction), смърт (curtains, death, decease, demise, departure, divide, doom, dust, dying, end, ending, exit, expiration, fatality, fate, grave, happy release, last, passing, tomb), край (about, abutment, border, by, close, closing, conclusion, country, curtains, death, dissolution, edge, end, ending, extremity, fag end, finale, finality, finish, flange, hem, issuance, issue, land, last, limb, limit, list, margin, off, on, outskirts, over, parts, past, period, point, region, rim, stop, surcease, tail, term, terminal, termination, truce, ultima thule, verge, wind up). (various references)

Czech

zúètování (quietude, settling). (various references)

French

quittance (quittance), règlement, mort, coup de grâce. (various references)

German

Ende (bottom, branch, cessation, close, conclusion, death, decline, end, ending, exit, expiration, finish, finished, outcome, point, result, ruin, tail, termination, terminus, tine, tip, upshot). (various references)

Greek 

εξόφληση (acquitance, pay off, quittance), ανάπαυση (cosiness, ease, leisure, relaxation, reposal, repose, respite, rest), απαλλαγή (absolution, acquitance, acquittal, deliverance, dispensation, exemption, extrication, releasement, remission, riddance). (various references)

Hebrew 

מות (death, decease, demise, fate, latter end, mortality). (various references)

Hungarian

vég (butt, end, fag end, finish, heel, last, roll, surcease, tail, terminal, termination, to talk the hind leg off a donkey), halál (death, debt of nature, decease, ending, fate), búcsú (departure, farewell, good bye, goodbye, kermis, leave, leave taking, parting, saint's-day, send-off). (various references)

Italian

estinzione (extinction, lapse, liquidation). (various references)

Pig Latin

ietusquay

Portuguese

quitação (discharge, quitter, receipt, release), recibo (acknowledgement, acknowledgment, claim check, docket, quitter, receipt), morte (death, decease, demise, doom, dying, exit, passing, quittance), libertação da vida (quittance), fim (aim, close, closing, drift, end, ending, expiration, expiry, finality, fine, finish, function, gaol, goal, jail, last, object, point, purpose, sake, stop, surcease, target, term, termination, terminus, tip, upshot, use, windup), extinção (dissolution, expulsion, quenching). (various references)

Romanian

ultimã loviturã, sfârşit (all over, cessation, close, conclusion, death, decline, dissolution, end, end-all, ended, ending, exhausted, finality, fine, finis, finish, issue, stop, term, termination, upshot), loviturã de graţie (a finishing stroke, finisher), clipã de urmã, capãt al vieţii. (various references)

Russian 

конец (closing, consummation, curtains, decline, dissolution, end, ending, extremity, finish, heelpiece, latter end, tail end, termination, tip, wind up, windup). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smrtni udarac (deathblow), smirenje (appeasement). (various references)

Spanish

muerte (death, decease, demise, departure, despatch, dispatch, doom, murder, passing), golpe de gracia, finiquito (settlement). (various references)

Swedish

dödsstöt (death blow, kiss of death), död (below ground, dead, death, decease, decedent, defunct, demise, departure, doom, dying, exit, expiry, fate, insensate, late, passing). (various references)

Turkish

temize çıkarma (exculpation, exoneration), son (afterbirth, bedrock, close, conclusion, conclusive, curtains, definitive, denouement, end, ending, expiration, expiry, extremity, farewell, fate, final, finis, finish, finishing, full, full stop, issue, kiss off, last, late, latest, latter, nth, Omega, outcome, recent, result, ruination, secundine, sunset, supreme, tail end, terminal, termination, ultimate, upshot), hesabın kapanması, aklama (exculpation, whitewash), öldürücü darbe (coup de grace, death blow, deathblow, killer), ölüm (bitter end, capital, deadly, death, decease, demise, departure, dissolution, doom, dying, end, ending, exit, killing, kiss off, last, latter end, longed-for rest, mortuary, necro-, obituary, passing, passing away, rest, sleep, the great divide, the grim reaper, the reaper, tomb). (various references)

Ukrainian

смерть (bane, death, decease, end, last), щось заспокійливе, квитанція (acquittance, quittance, receipt, ticket), звільнення із служби. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự từ trần. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "quietus": quietuses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Quietus" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: quantus, quieta, quietish, quieto, quietos, quileute, quintus, quitu, quitus. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: quiets, tuques.

-2 letters: etuis, quest, quiet, quite, quits, suite, tuque, usque.

-3 letters: etui, quit, site, suet, suit, ties, tuis.

-4 letters: its, sei, set, sit, sue, suq, tie, tis, tui, use, uts.

-5 letters: es, et, is, it, si, ti, us, ut.

+1 letter: sequitur, uniquest, unquiets.

+2 letters: boutiques, equisetum, quietudes, quietuses, sequiturs, turquoise.

+3 letters: equisetums, quintuples, soubriquet, squushiest, turquoises, ubiquities, unquietest.

+4 letters: disquietude, inquietudes, picturesque, quintuplets, soubriquets, tourniquets, triquetrous, unquietness.

+5 letters: aquicultures, disquietudes, superquality, unquestioned.