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placo (accusative singular placon, plural placoj, accusative plural placojn)
placo (plural placi)
placo
Traditionally uncertain. The relation with Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“wide and flat”) offered by Pokorny is rejected by De Vaan, who suggests Proto-Indo-European *pleHk- (“pleasingness or permission”), with only Tocharian relatives. If the laryngeal is h₂, a semantically difficult relationship could be drawn to Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k- (“to hit”), whence Ancient Greek πλήσσω (plḗssō, “I strike”). Related to placeō.
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈplaː.koː/, [ˈpɫ̪äːkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈpla.ko/, [ˈpläːko]
plācō (present infinitive plācāre, perfect active plācāvī, supine plācātum); first conjugation
- to appease
- supplicibus verbīs illam plācāte: sub illā
et fōrma et mōrēs et bona fāma manet.- Appease her with humble supplications; under her [protection]
abide [not only] beauty and character [but also] good reputation.
(See Venus (mythology).)
- Appease her with humble supplications; under her [protection]
- supplicibus verbīs illam plācāte: sub illā
- to placate, pacify, assuage, soothe, calm, quiet
- Synonyms: domō, lēniō, sōpiō, sēdō, dēlēniō, mānsuēscō, mānsuētō, mītigō, compōnō, restinguō, commītigō, levō, ēlevō, allevō, alleviō, sileō, molliō
- Antonyms: sollicitō, excitō, īnstīgō, īnstinguō, efferō, exciō, perpellō, concieō, concitō, īnflammō, cieō, incendō
- to reconcile
- “placo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “placo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- placo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to reconcile two people; to be a mediator: placare aliquem alicui or in aliquem
- to appease the anger of the gods: deos placare (B. G. 6. 15)
- (ambiguous) to be in a bad temper: sibi displicere (opp. sibi placere)
- to reconcile two people; to be a mediator: placare aliquem alicui or in aliquem
- Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti
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