Placentia

The town in Newfoundland is likely named after the Basque town of Placencia.

• IPA^(key): /pləˈsɛnʃə/, /pləˈsɛnʃiə/
• Hyphenation: Pla‧cen‧tia
• Rhymes: -ɛnʃiə, -ɛnʃə

Placentia

1. A city in Orange County, California, United States.
2. A town in Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.

• Placentia Bay

• analeptic, epicantal, El Capitan

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɫaˈkɛn.ti.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [plaˈt͡ʃɛn.t̪͡s̪i.a]

Placentia f sg (genitive Placentiae); first declension

1. Piacenza (a city in Italy)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• “Placentia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Placentia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.