placar

From French plaquer.

placar (first-person singular present placo, first-person singular preterite plaquí, past participle placat)

1. (transitive, rugby) to tackle

• placador

• placatge

• “placar”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025

Learned borrowing from Latin plācāre.^[1][2][3]

• Hyphenation: pla‧car

placar (first-person singular present placo, first-person singular preterite plaquei, past participle placado)

1. (obsolete) to calm

• aplacar

Borrowed from French plaquer.^[1][2]

• Hyphenation: pla‧car

placar (first-person singular present placo, first-person singular preterite plaquei, past participle placado)

1. (rugby) to tackle

Borrowed from French placard.^[1][2][4]

• placard

• Hyphenation: pla‧car

placar m (plural placares)

1. placard (a sheet of paper or cardboard with a written or printed announcement)
2. scoreboard (board that displays the score of a game)
3. (by extension) the scores of a game at a given time

   Synonyms: pontuação, (Brazil) escore

Borrowed from Latin plācāre.

• IPA^(key): /plaˈkaɾ/ [plaˈkaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: pla‧car

placar (first-person singular present placo, first-person singular preterite plaqué, past participle placado)

1. (obsolete) to calm

   Synonym: calmar

2. (rugby) to tackle

   Synonyms: entrar (soccer/football), taclear (American football)

• “placar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024