tranquillamente
Italian
Etymology
From tranquillo (“calm, peaceful”) + -mente (“-ly”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tran.kwil.laˈmen.te/
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ente
- Hyphenation: tran‧quil‧la‧mén‧te
Adverb
tranquillamente
- calmly, peacefully
- Synonyms: beatamente, pacatamente, pacificamente, placidamente, quietamente, rilassatamente, serenamente
- Antonym: nervosamente
- (informal) comfortably
- Synonyms: bellamente, comodamente
Related terms
Portuguese
Adverb
tranquillamente
- Pre-reform spelling (used until 1943 in Brazil and 1911 in Portugal) of tranquilamente.
- 1938, Graciliano Ramos, “Fuga [Escape]”, in Vidas Seccas [Barren Lives], Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio Editora, page 194:
- Se ellas tivessem paciencia, comeriam tranquillamente a carniça.
- If they had patience, they would easily eat the carrion.