plaer

• pler
• plaier (dialectal, Alghero)

Inherited from Old Catalan plaer~plader~plaser~plazer, from Latin placēre.

The Old Catalan word was mainly used as a verb, "to please", and this was later replaced by the likely analogical form plaure,^[1] while the original infinitive was maintained in a more abstract and noun form: compare a similar development in French plaisir (“pleasure”) vs. plaire (“to please”). Compare also the noun use of Occitan plaser (“pleasure”), Italian piacere, Spanish placer, Romanian plăcere, etc., from the Latin infinitive.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [pləˈɛ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [pləˈə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [plaˈeɾ]

plaer m (plural plaers)

1. pleasure

• plaure

plaer

1. alternative form of pleyer