英语词汇taciturn的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	taciturn
词源	taciturn [L18th] Taciturn, to describe someone who is reserved or uncommunicative, comes from Latin taciturnus ‘disposed to be silent’, which comes from tacitus ‘silent’, source of tacit [E17th] ‘assumed, silent’. These go back to the verb tacere ‘be silent’, as do reticence [E17th] and reticent [E19th].
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