verb/tɛʁ/
to be quiet, to be silent; to shut up (oneself), to be quiet, to fall silent, to stop talking; to keep (a matter) quiet, to keep secret, not to say
“faire taire” — to quieten, to silence, to shut up
Inherited from Middle French taire, from Old French taire, remade from the original form taisir (analogically to verbs like plaire, etc., or from the future forms), itself from Latin tacēre, from Proto-Italic *takēō.