“silence” in Latin

silentium (stillness, when everything is still; e.g., the stillness of the night, silentium noctis): taciturnitas (silence, as natural disposition, or as the result of a determination to be silent; taciturnity, forbearance of speech; Vid: Cic., ad Quint. Fr., 2, 1, 1: “Lupus ex praesenti silentio, quid senatus sentiret, se intelligere dixit. Tum Marcellinus, Noli, inquit, ex taciturnitate nostra, Lupe, quid aut probemus hoc tempore, aut improbemus, judicare”): intermissio, cessatio (silence; e.g., litterarum, in answering a letter): silence gives consent, *qui tacet, consentit: to keep silence, silere; silentium tenere or obtinere: to keep a lasting silence, diuturno uti silentio: to observe silence respecting anything, tacere de aliqua re; silere de aliqua re; reticere de aliqua re or aliquid (the latter more in the sense of concealing): to pass over in silence, silentio or tacitum praeterire aliquid: to order, or to enjoin, or impose silence, silentium fieri jubere; silentium imperare; by nodding, or waving one’s hand, manu poscere silentium: they ordered the most profound silence to be kept respecting the circumstance, rem summa ope taceri jubent: in silence, silentio; per silentium; cum silentio: to look at anything in silence, aliquid silentio transmittere: to put to silence, alicujus linguam retundere (of a person who complains with a loud voice; Vid: Liv., 33, 31, extr.): comprimere (to quell, to make quiet; anybody, aliquem; Plaut., Rud., 4, 4, 81, etc.); one’s conscience, conscientiam animi (Cic., De Fin., 2, 17, in.); confutare (to check, to stop, to suppress; e.g., alicujus audaciam; then, also, to confute, to beat by argument; e.g., anybody’s proofs, alicujus argumenta): refutare (to make altogether invalid, to refute, to cause to fall to the ground; e.g., tribunos): libels, maledicta; opprimere (to oppress, to put down; e.g., anybody’s complaints, alicujus querelas). Silence! quin taces! tacemodo! silete et tacete! favete linguis! or simply, favete

To oblige to hold peace [Vid: “to put to SILENCE,” substantive].

To still, sedare (PROP., to cause anything to settle; hence to quell, to subdue, etc; discord, discordias; anybody’s complaint, lamentationem): tranquillare (to tranquillize, to quiet; e.g., alicujus animum; opposed to alicujus animum perturbare): comprimere (to still rather by force, to check; e.g., seditionem; opposed to seditionem exstinguere): compescere (not to allow to grow, or to get the better of anybody or anything; e.g., pain, complaints, dolorem, querelas).