discreet (respectful of privacy or secrecy; quiet; diplomatic) · discreet (not drawing attention, anger or challenge; inconspicuous) · discrete (consisting of values from a countable set)
çekim: karşılaştırma dyskretniejszy · üstünlük najdyskretniejszy
köken: Adapted borrowing of French discret + -ny, from Old French discret, from Latin discrētus.
discreet, secretive (able to keep confidences secret) · discreet, tactful (able to deal with people in a sensitive manner) · discreet, delicate
çekim: karşılaştırma diszkrétebb · üstünlük legdiszkrétebb
köken: From German diskret, from French discrète (“discreet”), from Latin discrētus (“separated, distinct”), past participle of discernō (“distinguish”).
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.
soft, quiet, silent (barely hearable, weak, not loud) · quiet, silent (where, when there are no loud sounds; where, when there are no sounds) · quiet, calm (where there are no crowds, not much traffic)
çekim: karşılaştırma klusāks · üstünlük visklusākais
zıt: skaļš
köken: From Proto-Baltic *klus-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- (“to sound, to hear”) (whence klausīt (“to obey”), q.v., klausīties (“to listen”), klust (“to be silent”), more frequently apklust), with an extra -s. The semantic evolution of klust, and consequently also of kluss, was probably: “to hear” > “to listen” > “to be quiet (in order to listen).” Cognates include Lithuanian klùsas (“hard of…
aile: klusēt, klust, klusums
klusa dziesma, mūzika
runāt klusā balsī
klusi soļi
Etimoloji
Inherited from Old French discret, borrowed from Latin discretus (“separate”).