tranquil

English

WOTD – 17 October 2009

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French tranquille, from Latin tranquillus, from trāns- + the root of quiēs (“rest, quiet, peace”), ultimately from *kʷyeh₁- (“to rest”).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹæŋ.kwɪl/

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Adjective

tranquil (comparative tranquiler, superlative tranquilest)

1. Free from emotional or mental disturbance.

   Synonyms: calm, peaceful, serene, steady

   Antonym: agitated

   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter XXVIII, in Jane Eyre:

     Some time passed before I felt tranquil even here: I had a vague dread that wild cattle might be near, or that some sportsman or poacher might discover me.

2. Calm; without motion or sound.

   Synonym: peaceful

   • 1921, Douglas Wilson Johnson, Battlefields of the World War, Western and Southern Fronts: A Study in Military Geography, page 262:

     […] that the streams which did form were clear and tranquil because fed by perennial springs from the underground supply; and that in their tranquil waters extensive peat bogs formed.

Related terms

• tranquillity
• tranquillize
• tranquilly
• tranquilness

 

Translations

free from emotional disturbance

• Bulgarian: тих (bg) (tih), спокоен (bg) (spokoen)
• Catalan: tranquil (ca)
• Czech: pokojný (cs)
• Danish: rolig (da), stille (da)
• Finnish: rauhallinen (fi)
• French: tranquille (fr)
• Galician: tranquilo (gl)
• German: ruhig (de), gelassen (de)
• Irish: suaimhneach
• Italian: tranquillo (it), sereno (it), calmo (it)
• Latgalian: romons, mīrons
• Latin: tranquillus
• Latvian: rāms (lv), mierīgs
• Macedonian: спо́коен (spókoen), ми́рен (míren)
• Malayalam: സ്വസ്ഥം (ml) (svasthaṁ)
• Norwegian Bokmål: rolig (no)
• Norwegian Nynorsk: roleg
• Ottoman Turkish: دولك (dölek)
• Plautdietsch: frädlich
• Polish: spokojny (pl)
• Portuguese: tranquilo (pt), calmo (pt)
• Russian: споко́йный (ru) (spokójnyj), уравнове́шенный (ru) (uravnovéšennyj), ми́рный (ru) (mírnyj), безмяте́жный (ru) (bezmjatéžnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: foiseil, suaimhneach
• Slovak: pokojný (sk)
• Slovene: spokojen
• Spanish: tranquilo (es)
• Swedish: lugn (sv)
• Walloon: påjhûle (wa), påjhire (wa), trankile (wa)

calm; without motion or sound

• Bulgarian: неподвижен (bg) (nepodvižen)
• Catalan: tranquil (ca)
• Czech: pokojný (cs), tichý (cs)
• Danish: rolig (da), stille (da)
• Finnish: rauhallinen (fi), tyyni (fi)
• French: tranquille (fr)
• Galician: tranquilo (gl), quieto (gl)
• German: ruhig (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: ἡσύχιος (hēsúkhios)

• Italian: calmo (it), pacifico (it), quieto (it)
• Korean: 고요하다 (ko) (goyohada)
• Latin: tranquillus
• Macedonian: спо́коен (spókoen), ти́вок (tívok)
• Malayalam: ശാന്തം (ml) (śāntaṁ)
• Norwegian Bokmål: rolig (no)
• Norwegian Nynorsk: roleg
• Polish: cichy (pl)
• Portuguese: tranquilo (pt), calmo (pt)
• Russian: ти́хий (ru) (tíxij), споко́йный (ru) (spokójnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: foiseil, suaimhneach
• Slovak: pokojný (sk), tichý
• Spanish: tranquilo (es), apacible (es)
• Walloon: påjhûle (wa), påjhire (wa), coey (wa), trankile (wa)

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} rustig (nl)
• German: ^{(please verify)} ruhig (de)
• Swedish: ^{(please verify)} lugn (sv)

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tranquīllus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [tɾəŋˈkil]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [tɾaŋˈkil]
• Rhymes: -il

Adjective

tranquil (feminine tranquil·la, masculine plural tranquils, feminine plural tranquil·les)

1. tranquil, calm (free from emotional disturbance)
2. tranquil, calm (without motion or sound)

   Synonym: calm

   Antonym: agitat

Derived terms

• tranquil·lament
• tranquil·litzar

Related terms

• tranquil·litat

Further reading

• “tranquil” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tranquil”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “tranquil” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tranquil” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tranˈkwil/

Adjective

tranquil

1. tranquil