placo

• IPA^(key): [ˈplat͡so]
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• Rhymes: -at͡so
• Hyphenation: pla‧co

placo (accusative singular placon, plural placoj, accusative plural placojn)

1. public square, town square, plaza

• rondoplaco

• IPA^(key): /ˈplat͡so/

placo (plural placi)

1. public square, plaza

• IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ko/
• Rhymes: -ako
• Hyphenation: plà‧co

placo

1. first-person singular present indicative of placare

• colpa, palco, polca

Traditionally uncertain. The relation with Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“wide and flat”) offered by Pokorny is rejected by De Vaan, who suggests Proto-Indo-European *pleHk- (“pleasingness or permission”), with only Tocharian relatives. If the laryngeal is h₂, a semantically difficult relationship could be drawn to Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k- (“to hit”), whence Ancient Greek πλήσσω (plḗssō, “I strike”). Related to placeō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈplaː.koː/, [ˈpɫ̪äːkoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ko/, [ˈpläːko]

plācō (present infinitive plācāre, perfect active plācāvī, supine plācātum); first conjugation

1. to appease
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.155–156:

     supplicibus verbīs illam plācāte: sub illā
     et fōrma et mōrēs et bona fāma manet.

     Appease her with humble supplications; under her [protection]
     abide [not only] beauty and character [but also] good reputation.
     (See Venus (mythology).)

2. to placate, pacify, assuage, soothe, calm, quiet

   Synonyms: domō, lēniō, sōpiō, sēdō, dēlēniō, mānsuēscō, mānsuētō, mītigō, compōnō, restinguō, commītigō, levō, ēlevō, allevō, alleviō, sileō, molliō

   Antonyms: sollicitō, excitō, īnstīgō, īnstinguō, efferō, exciō, perpellō, concieō, concitō, īnflammō, cieō, incendō

   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 1.142–143:

     Sīc ait, et dictō citius tumida aequora plācat,
     collēctāsque fugat nūbēs, sōlemque redūcit.

     Thus says [Neptune], and quicker than his speech he soothes the swollen waters, routs the gathered clouds, and brings back the sun.

3. to reconcile

• plācātiō

• “placo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “placo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• placo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to reconcile two people; to be a mediator: placare aliquem alicui or in aliquem
    
  • to appease the anger of the gods: deos placare (B. G. 6. 15)
    
  • (ambiguous) to be in a bad temper: sibi displicere (opp. sibi placere)
    
• Online Latin dictionary, Olivetti

placo

1. first-person singular present indicative of placar

• IPA^(key): /ˈplako/ [ˈpla.ko]
• Rhymes: -ako
• Syllabification: pla‧co

placo

1. first-person singular present indicative of placar