placitus

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Participle

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

  1. pleasing, agreeable, acceptable, agreed upon
    • 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.)
    • Placiti dies.
      Appointed days.

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

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