placeo

Latin

Etymology

See the related plācō (“to appease, placate”).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

placeō (present infinitive placēre, perfect active placuī or placitus sum, supine placitum); second conjugation, optionally semi-deponent

  1. (with dative) to be pleasing or agreeable to; to please, to be nice; to be welcome or acceptable; to satisfy, suit (in a mental rather than a sensual way)
    Synonyms: gaudeō, ovō, exhilarō, grātulor, congrātulor, fruor
    Antonym: displiceō
    sibi placēre ― to be pleased with oneself, to act proud
    placet mihi ― I find this fine/nice
    sī dīs placet ― gods willing (literally, “if it pleases the gods”)
    placēns uxor ― dear wife
    hostia placens Deō ― a sacrifice that pleases God
    vidē sī satis placet ― see if this suits
    ita nōbīs placitum est, ut […] ― I thought it fitting to […]
    senātuī placet ― the Senate decrees
  2. (with dative) to like (the dative should be translated as the subject in English)
  3. to resolve, will, order, determine
    Synonyms: statuō, cernō, dēcernō, parō, cōnstituō

Usage notes

Designates pleasure in something that one finds agreeable, fitting, while libet refers to a pursuit of something desirable or pleasurable.

Contrasts with dēlectō (“to please the senses, delight, entertain”).

Conjugation

   Conjugation of placeō (second conjugation, optionally semi-deponent)
indicative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present placeō placēs placet placēmus placētis placent
imperfect placēbam placēbās placēbat placēbāmus placēbātis placēbant
future placēbō placēbis placēbit placēbimus placēbitis placēbunt
perfect placuī,
placitus sum 		placuistī,
placitus es 		placuit,
placitus est 		placuimus,
placitī sumus 		placuistis,
placitī estis 		placuērunt,
placuēre,
placitī sunt
pluperfect placueram,
placitus eram 		placuerās,
placitus erās 		placuerat,
placitus erat 		placuerāmus,
placitī erāmus 		placuerātis,
placitī erātis 		placuerant,
placitī erant
future perfect placuerō,
placitus erō 		placueris,
placitus eris 		placuerit,
placitus erit 		placuerimus,
placitī erimus 		placueritis,
placitī eritis 		placuerint,
placitī erint
subjunctive singular plural
first second third first second third
active present placeam placeās placeat placeāmus placeātis placeant
imperfect placērem placērēs placēret placērēmus placērētis placērent
perfect placuerim,
placitus sim 		placuerīs,
placitus sīs 		placuerit,
placitus sit 		placuerīmus,
placitī sīmus 		placuerītis,
placitī sītis 		placuerint,
placitī sint
pluperfect placuissem,
placitus essem 		placuissēs,
placitus essēs 		placuisset,
placitus esset 		placuissēmus,
placitī essēmus 		placuissētis,
placitī essētis 		placuissent,
placitī essent
imperative singular plural
first second third first second third
active present — placē — — placēte —
future — placētō placētō — placētōte placentō
non-finite forms infinitive participle
active passive active passive
present placēre — placēns —
future placitūrum esse — placitūrus placendus
perfect placuisse,
placitum esse 		— placitus —
future perfect placitum fore — — —
perfect potential placitūrum fuisse — — —
verbal nouns gerund supine
genitive dative accusative ablative accusative ablative
placendī placendō placendum placendō placitum placitū

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Aromanian: plac
    • Romanian: plăcea
  • Dalmatian:
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Corsican: piacè, piacere, piaceri
    • Italian: piacere
    • Neapolitan: piacèr
    • Sicilian: pràciri (obsolete), piàciri (italianized)
  • Padanian:
    • Emilian: piasair
    • Friulian: plasê
    • Ligurian: piâxéi
    • Lombard: piaxer, pciasè, plasì
    • Piedmontese: piasej (verb); piasì (noun)
    • Romansch: plaschair, plascher
    • Venetan: piaxer, piaçér, piasér
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: plére, plaiser (verb); plèsir, pléjir (noun)
    • Lorrain: plare (verb), plagir (noun)
    • Norman: pllaisir
    • Old French: plaire, plaisir (see there for further descendants)
    • Walloon: plaisi
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance: (possibly semi-learned)
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: piachere, piaghere, piazeri, piaceri, piasgè, plexeri, praxeri, praxei, prexeri, prexei, pregheri, prexu, paciurru, piciurru, peciurru
  • Ancient borrowings:
    • → Basque: laket
    • → Proto-Albanian: *plakjɔnit
  • Modern borrowings:

References

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “placeō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 469

Further reading

  • “placeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “placeo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • placeo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • what is your opinion: quid de ea re fieri placet?
    • (ambiguous) to be in a bad temper: sibi displicere (opp. sibi placere)

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plaˈθeo/ [plaˈθe.o] (Spain)
  • IPA(key): /plaˈseo/ [plaˈse.o] (Latin America, Philippines)
  • Rhymes: -eo
  • Syllabification: pla‧ce‧o

Verb

placeo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of placear
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