# placeo
## Latin
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈpla.ke.oː/, [ˈpɫ̪äkeoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpla.t͡ʃe.o/, [ˈpläːt͡ʃeo]

### Verb

placeō (present infinitive placēre, perfect active placuī or placitus sum, supine placitum); second conjugation, optionally semi-deponent
* (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
* (with dative) to like (the dative should be translated as the subject in English)
* 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”).

#### Derived terms

* complaceō
* displiceō
* placidus
* placitus

#### Related terms

* placere

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: plac
** Romanian: plăcea
* Dalmatian:
** placaro
* 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
** Venetan: piaxer, piaçér, piasér
* Northern Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: plére, plaiser (verb); plèsir, pléjir (noun)
** Lorrain: plare (verb), plagir (noun)
** Norman: pllaisir
** Old French: plaire, plaisir (see there for further descendants)
*** Middle French: plaire (verb), plaisir (noun)
**** French: plaire (verb), plaisir (noun)
** Walloon: plaisi
* Southern Gallo-Romance:
** Aragonese: placer
** Old Catalan: plaer, plaser
*** Catalan: plaure (verb); plaer (noun)
** Old Occitan: plazer
*** Occitan: plaire (verb); plaser (noun)
    Auvergnat: plaseir (noun)
    Gascon: plàser, plàder (verb)
    Limousin: plàser (verb)
* Ibero-Romance: (possibly semi-learned)
** Old Leonese:
*** Asturian: placer
*** Leonese: plazer
*** Extremaduran: prazer
** Old Galician-Portuguese: prazer
*** Galician: pracer
*** Portuguese: prazer, aprazer
** Old Spanish: placer
*** Spanish: placer
* 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
*** Albanian: pëlqej
* Modern borrowings:
** →⇒ English: placebo

### References

* ↑ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “placeō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 469

### Further reading

* “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: (Spain) /plaˈθeo/ [plaˈθe.o]
* IPA: (Latin America, Philippines) /plaˈseo/ [plaˈse.o]
* Rhymes: -eo
* Syllabification: pla‧ce‧o

### Verb

placeo
* first-person singular present indicative of placear