placitum
English Edit
Etymology Edit
See placit.
Noun Edit
placitum (plural placita)
- (historical) A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign presided when a consultation was held upon affairs of state.
- (UK, law, obsolete) A court, or cause in court.
- (law) A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit.
- "By deleting in placitum the amount of 7c and inserting in lieu thereof the amount of 9c."
- (law, US, Australia) a legal decision made by a judge or court.
Latin Edit
Etymology Edit
Neuter gender of placitus.
Noun Edit
placitum n (genitive placitī); second declension
Declension Edit
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | placitum | placita |
| Genitive | placitī | placitōrum |
| Dative | placitō | placitīs |
| Accusative | placitum | placita |
| Ablative | placitō | placitīs |
| Vocative | placitum | placita |
Descendants Edit
- Dalmatian: aplič
- Old French: plait
- → English: plea
- Galician: preito
- Italian: piato
- Portuguese: preito, pleito
- Spanish: pleito
- → Italian: placito
- → Portuguese: plácito
- → Spanish: plácito
Participle Edit
placitum
References Edit
- “placitum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- placitum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- placitum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette