Adjective: quiet
Hyphenation:
| Singular m. | quiet |
| Singular f. | quiète |
| Plural m. | quiets |
| Plural f. | quiètes |
Sample Sentences
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Alors en regardant, en écoutant Mme de Guermantes, je voyais, prisonnier dans la perpétuelle et quiète après-midi de ses yeux, un ciel d'Ile-de-France ou de Champagne se tendre […]. (So when I watched and listened to Mme de Guermantes, I saw, a prisoner in the perpetual and placid afternoon of her eyes, an Ile-de-France or Champagne sky stretching out…) [1921, Marcel Proust, Le Côté de Guermantes, section II:]
Adjectives inflected like quiet
secret,
NP-complet,
discret,
complet,
concret,
ultra-secret,
quiet,
indiscret,
incomplet,
désuet,
top-secret,
inquiet,
replet,
Etymology
Inherited from Old French quiete (13th c.), borrowed from Latin quiētus. The masculine quiet is a Middle French backformation. Doublet of inherited coi and the earlier borrowing quitte.
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