Tacitus

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Tacitus m

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Crassulaceae – a stonecrop, Chihuahua flower, now included in Graptopetalum.

• (genus): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots - clades; Saxifragales - order; Crassulaceae - family; Sedoideae - subfamily; Sedeae - tribe

• (genus): Tacitus bellus - sole species; (now Graptopetalum bellum (Chihuahua flower))

• Graptopetalum bellum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sedinae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Graptopetalum bellum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Tacitus at National Center for Biotechnology Information
• Graptopetalum bellum at Tropicos
• Tacitus bellus at Germplasm Resources Information Network

Latin Tacitus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈtæsɪtʊs/

Tacitus

1. A Roman cognomen, notably borne by Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c.56–117), a historian of ancient Rome and Marcus Claudius Tacitus (c.200–275), a Roman emperor.
2. A lunar impact crater.

• Tacitan, Tacitian

• Atticus, catsuit

From tacitus (“silent”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.ki.tus/, [ˈt̪äkɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈta.t͡ʃi.tus/, [ˈt̪äːt͡ʃit̪us]

Tacitus m sg (genitive Tacitī); second declension

1. A Roman cognomen, notably borne by Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (c.56-117), a historian of ancient Rome and Marcus Claudius Tacitus (c.200-275), a Roman emperor.

Second-declension noun, singular only.

• “Tacitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Tacitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.