# placo
## Esperanto
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈplat͡so]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -at͡so
* Hyphenation: pla‧co

### Noun

placo (accusative singular placon, plural placoj, accusative plural placojn)
* public square, town square, plaza

#### Derived terms

* rondoplaco

## Ido
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈplat͡so/

### Noun

placo (plural placi)
* public square, plaza

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈpla.ko/
* Rhymes: -ako
* Hyphenation: plà‧co

### Verb

placo
* first-person singular present indicative of placare

### Anagrams

* colpa, palco, polca

## Latin
### Etymology

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 (such as Tocharian A plāk- (“to agree”)). 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.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈplaː.koː/, [ˈpɫ̪äːkoː]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈpla.ko/, [ˈpläːko]

### Verb

plācō (present infinitive plācāre, perfect active plācāvī, supine plācātum); first conjugation
* 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).)
* to placate, pacify, assuage, soothe, calm, quiet
    Synonyms: domō, lēniō, sōpiō, sēdō, dēlēniō, mānsuēscō, mānsuētō, mānsuēfaciō, permulceō, 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.
* to reconcile

#### Derived terms

* plācātiō
* plācātore
* plācāmentum
* plācābilis
* plācātus
* plācātūrus
* implācābilis

#### Descendants

* Catalan: aplacar
* → English: placate
* Italian: placare
* → Portuguese: placar
* Romanian: placa
* → Spanish: placar

### 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

* “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

## Portuguese
### Verb

placo
* first-person singular present indicative of placar

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈplako/ [ˈpla.ko]
* Rhymes: -ako
* Syllabification: pla‧co

### Verb

placo
* first-person singular present indicative of placar