Rest in peace (acronym R.I.P.) in the second person singular, or “Requiescite in pace” in the second person plural. In the common phrase "Requiescat in pace" the "-at" ending is appropriate because the verb is a third-person singular present active subjunctive used in a hortative sense: "May he/she rest in peace." The phrase was first found on tombstones some time before the fifth century. It became ubiquitous on the tombs of Christians in the 18th century, and for High Church Anglicans, Methodists, as well as Roman Catholics in particular, it was a prayerful request that their soul should find peace in the afterlife.
Traditional English pronunciation of Latin listed summarily below. The full set of consonantal phonemes for A-L is almost identical to that of English, lacking only . Environments that condition the appearance of some of these phonemes are listed below: The change of intervocalic to is common but not universal. Voicing is more common in Latin than in Greek words, and never occurs in the common Greek ending "-sis", where "s" is always voiceless: "basis, crisis, genesis". The most common type of phonemic change in A-L is palatalization. A-L reflects the results of no less than four palatalization processes. The first of these occurred in Late