placitus

Latin

Etymology

Perfect active participle of placeō (“be pleasing”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ki.tus/, [ˈpɫ̪äkɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.t͡ʃi.tus/, [ˈpläːt͡ʃit̪us]

Participle

placitus (feminine placita, neuter placitum); first/second-declension participle

1. pleasing, agreeable, acceptable, agreed upon

   Placiti dies.

   Appointed days.

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.38:

     “[...] placitōne etiam pugnābis amōrī?”

     “[...] Will you also oppose a love so pleasing [to you]?”
     (Since Dido had rejected other suitors, Anna advises her sister to accept Aeneas as an attractive husband and favorable alliance.)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	placitus	placita	placitum		placitī	placitae	placita
Genitive	placitī	placitae	placitī		placitōrum	placitārum	placitōrum
Dative	placitō		placitō		placitīs
Accusative	placitum	placitam	placitum		placitōs	placitās	placita
Ablative	placitō	placitā	placitō		placitīs
Vocative	placite	placita	placitum		placitī	placitae	placita

Derived terms

• placitum

Descendants

• Old Galician-Portuguese: prazo
  • Portuguese: prazo
• Old Spanish: plazdo, plazo
  • Spanish: plazo

References

• “placitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “placitus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• placitus 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)
• placitus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “placitus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers