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- Latin · borrowed fromtacitus“that is passed over in silence, done without words, assumed as a matter of course, silent”
- Middle French · borrowed fromtacite
- English todaytacit
Borrowed from late Middle French tacite, or from Latin tacitus (“that is passed over in silence, done without words, assumed as a matter of course, silent”), from tacere (“to be silent”).
Words from the same roots
Latintacitus all →
Tacitus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.