placitus

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

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ki.tus/, [ˈpɫ̪äkɪt̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.t͡ʃi.tus/, [ˈpläːt͡ʃit̪us]

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

1. pleasing, agreeable, acceptable, agreed upon

   Placiti dies.

   Appointed days.

   • 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.)

First/second-declension adjective.

• placitum

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

• “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