requiem

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛ.kwi.əm/, /ˈɹɛ.kwi.ɛm/
• Hyphenation: re‧qui‧em

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From Middle English requiem, from Latin requiem, the first word of the introit for the traditional requiem mass, an alternative accusative case of Latin requiēs (“rest, repose”), from re- (“again”) + quiēs (“rest, quiet”).

requiem (plural requiems)

1. A Mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person.
2. A musical composition for such a mass.
3. A piece of music composed to honor a dead person.
4. (obsolete) Rest; peace.

• dirge, elegy, threnody – funeral songs

• requiem mass

• requiescat
• See related terms of quiet

From French requin, altered by association with Etymology 1, above.

requiem (plural requiems)

1. A large or dangerous shark, specifically, (zoology) a member of the family Carcharhinidae.
   • 1973, Patrick Buchanan, A Requiem of Sharks:

     Any man-eater is called a requiem.

• requiem shark

Ultimately from Latin requiem.

• IPA^(key): /rekjem/ [re.kjẽm], /rekiem/ [re.ki.ẽm]
• Rhymes: -ekjem, -em, -iem, -em

requiem inan

1. requiem (mass)
2. requiem (musical composition)

• “requiem”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]

• IPA^(key): [ˈrɛkvɪjɛm]

requiem n (indeclinable)

1. alternative form of rekviem

< Latin requiem

• IPA^(key): /ˈrekʋiem/, [ˈre̞kʋie̞m]
• Rhymes: -ekʋiem

requiem

1. requiem (mass or composition)

• IPA^(key): /ʁe.kɥi.jɛm/, /ʁe.kwi.jɛm/

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requiem m (plural requiems)

1. requiem

• “requiem”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin requiem [​aeternam dōnā eīs, Domine​] (“Grant them eternal rest, O Lord”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛ.kwjem/^[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛkwjem
• Hyphenation: rè‧quiem

requiem m (invariable)

1. requiem

• requie
• messa funebre
• messa da requiem
• onoranze funebri

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛ.kʷi.ẽː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈrɛː.kʷi.em]

requiem

1. accusative singular of requiēs

From Latin requiem, the first word of the introit for the traditional requiem mass.

• IPA^(key): /ˈrɛkwiɛm/

requiem (Late Middle English)

1. requiem (mass for commemoration of the dead)
2. (rare) death, eternal peace

• English: requiem
• Scots: requiem (obsolete)

• “requiem, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• rekwiem

Unadapted borrowing from Latin requiem.

• IPA^(key): /rɛˈkfi.ɛm/

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• Rhymes: -iɛm
• Syllabification: re‧qui‧em

requiem n (indeclinable)

1. (music) requiem (musical composition composed for such a mass)
2. (Roman Catholicism) requiem (mass to honor and remember a dead person)

• requiem in Polish dictionaries at PWN

• Hyphenation: re‧qui‧em

requiem m (plural requiens)

1. alternative spelling of réquiem