placo

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

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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

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 *pl(e)Hk- (“pleasingness or permission”), with only Tocharian relatives. If the laryngeal is h₂, a semantically difficult relationship could be drawn to Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₂k- (“to hit”), whence Ancient Greek πλήσσω (plḗssō, “I strike”). Related to placeō.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈplaː.koː/, [ˈpɫaː.koː]

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

1. I appease
2. I placate, pacify, assuage
3. I reconcile

• English: placate
• Italian: placare
• Portuguese: placar
• Romanian: placa
• Spanish: aplacar

• 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)
    

• IPA^(key): /ˈplako/

placo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of placar.