placeo

Latin

Etymology

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

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 active passive
present perfect future present perfect future
infinitives placēre placitum esse placitūrum esse — — —
participles placēns placitus placitūrus — — —
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
    • Venetian: piaxer, piaçér, piasér
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: pllére, pllaiser (verb); pllèsir, plléjir (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
  • “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, 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): (Spain) /plaˈθeo/ [plaˈθe.o]
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /plaˈseo/ [plaˈse.o]
  • Rhymes: -eo
  • Syllabification: pla‧ce‧o

Verb

placeo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of placear
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