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語源

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”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈtæsɪt/
• 韻: -æsɪt
• 異形同音異義語: tacet, tasset

形容詞

tacit (comparative more tacit, superlative most tacit)

1. Implied, but not made explicit, especially through silence.

   tacit consent ― consent by silence, or by not raising an objection

   • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

     Our tacit treaty with Miss Maudie was that we could play on her lawn, eat her scuppernongs if we didn’t jump on the arbor, and explore her vast back lot,

   • 1983, Stanley Rosen, Plato’s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image, page 62:

     He does this by way of a tacit reference to Homer.

   • 2004, Lawrence Pratchett, Vivien Lowndes, editors, Developing Democracy in Europe: An Analytical Summary, →ISBN:

     […] disengagement represents a tacit rejection of governing institutions and processes, especially among young people, […]

2. (logic) Not derived from formal principles of reasoning; based on induction rather than deduction.

派生語

• tacitly
• tacitness
• tacit programming
• tacit collusion

関連する語

• tacet
• taciturn
• taciturnity
• taciturnly
• tacenda

Further reading

• “tacit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tacit”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “tacit”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• Attic, Catti, attic, ticat