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liniste
silence /liˈniʃte/
noun#2741 most common
Also: quiet, calm, peace
Example sentences
Este liniște în cameră.
It is quiet in the room.
Am nevoie de liniște ca să citesc.
I need quiet to read.
Copiii au adormit în liniște.
The children fell asleep in silence.
După furtună, s-a lăsat o liniște ciudată peste sat.
After the storm, a strange silence fell over the village.
Liniștea aceasta apăsătoare mă face să mă simt neliniștit.
This oppressive silence makes me feel uneasy.
În liniștea nopții, gândurile îi reveneau ca niște valuri neobosite.
In the quiet of the night, his thoughts kept returning like tireless waves.
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | liniște | liniști |
| Genitive | liniști | liniști |
| Accusative | liniște | liniști |
| Vocative | liniște | liniști |
Word family
liniștitcalm, quiet
a liniștito calm, to quiet down
nelinișteunease, anxiety
liniștitorsoothing, reassuring
lincalm, smooth, gentleEtymology
Liniște is built from the Romanian adjective lin, meaning calm or smooth, and the old noun-forming suffix -iște. Lin itself comes from Latin lenis, which meant soft or gentle. The suffix -iște turned the quality into a state or condition, so liniște originally meant something like a state of calm smoothness, and later narrowed to silence and quiet.
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