| 词汇 | quietus |
| 词源 | quietus. Quietus derives from the Latin quietus est, “he is quiet.” The word originally applied only to the discharge of any financial account, or the settlement of obligation. But quietus came to apply to the discharge of life itself, as Shakespeare used it in Hamlet: Who would fardels [burdens] bear . . . When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin [dagger]? See bodkin. |
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