placard

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English placard (“official document”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French placard, placart, plaquart (“a placard, a writing pasted on a wall”), from The (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French verb plaquer, plaquier (“to stick or paste, roughcast”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle Dutch placken, plecken (“to glue or fasten, plaster, patch”), ultimately from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *plaggą (“a piece of cloth, patch”), equivalent to plaque +‎ -ard. Related to Middle Low German placken (“to smear with lime or clay, plaster”), Saterland Frisian Plak, Plakke (“a hit, smack, slap”), German Placken (“a spot, patch”), Icelandic plagg (“a document”), Hebrew פלקט (“'plakat' a large sheet of paper, typically with a photo or writing, posted on the wall”), Thai ประกาศ (bprà-gàat, “'prakat' an official announcement”), Khmer ប្រកាស (prɑkaah, “'prakah' an official announcement”), English play. Compare also Modern Dutch plakkaat (“placard”), Saterland Frisian Plakoat (“a placard, poster”). More at play.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplæk.ɑːd/
• IPA^(key): /ˈplæk.ɑɹd/, /ˈplæk.ɚd/

Noun

placard (plural placards)

1. A sheet of paper or cardboard with a written or printed announcement on one side for display in a public place.
2. (obsolete) A public proclamation; a manifesto or edict issued by authority.
   • Howell

     All placards or edicts are published in his name.

3. (obsolete) Permission given by authority; a license.

   to give a placard to do something

4. (historical) An extra plate on the lower part of the breastplate or backplate of armour.
5. (historical) A kind of stomacher, often adorned with jewels, worn in the fifteenth century and later.
6. The woodwork and frame of the door of a closet etc.

Translations

a sheet of paper or cardboard

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 招貼／招贴 (zh) (zhāotiē), 招贴 (zh) (zhāotiē)

• Dutch: plakkaat (nl) n
• Esperanto: afiŝo
• Finnish: juliste (fi)
• French: affiche (fr) f
• German: Plakat (de) n
• Hindi: प्लैकर्ड (hi) m (plaikarḍ)
• Irish: fógra m
• Italian: manifesto (it) m, cartellone (it) m
• Japanese: プラカード (purakādo)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
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• Korean: 플래카드 (peullaekadeu)
• Latin: titulus m
• Mongolian: зурагт хуудас (zuragt xuudas), зарлал (mn) (zarlal)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: plakat m

  Nynorsk: plakat m

• Persian: پلاکارد (fa) (plâkârd)
• Russian: афи́ша (ru) f (afíša) (theatral, circus or cinema), плака́т (ru) m (plakát), объявле́ние (ru) n (obʺjavlénije)
• Spanish: letrero (es) m, pancarta (es) f (at protest), cartel (es) m
• Swedish: plakat (sv) n
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: afitche (wa) f

Verb

placard (third-person singular simple present placards, present participle placarding, simple past and past participle placarded)

1. To affix a placard to.
2. To announce with placards.

   to placard a sale

Translations

to affix a placard to

• Norwegian: plakatklistring (noun/present participle)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla.kaʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

placard m (plural placards)

1. a cupboard, cabinet or closet built against or into a wall
2. an ad that is felt to be injurious, seditious or in otherwise bad taste
3. (dated) a placard

Usage notes

• The use of placards for announcements by authorities having mostly disappeared, the word affiche frequently replaces it in that meaning.

Further reading

• “placard”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Middle French

Alternative forms

• placart
• plaquart

Noun

placard m (plural placards)

1. placard (public written notice)