placer

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English

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Etymology 1

place +‎ -er (“suffix forming agent noun”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpleɪsə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (AU)(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪsə(ɹ)

Noun

placer (plural placers)

  1. One who places or arranges something.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
  2. (slang) One who deals in stolen goods; a fence.[1]
Synonyms

Etymology 2

From place +‎ -er (“suffix apparently denoting association”).

Noun

placer (plural placers)

  1. (ethology, sheep, Australia, New Zealand) A lamb whose mother has died and which has transferred its attachment to an object, such as a bush or rock, in the locality.
    • 1951, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, Problems of Infancy and Childhood, Volume 4, page 101,
      This is a “placer” sheep, as it is called. The prerequisites to this condition are that the young sheep must be still nursing, but must have begun to nibble grass. It must be the young of a mother that has been somewhat isolated, away from the corral and away from the herd, by herself out on the prairie. Now, when the mother dies, the lamb remains close to the mother′s body […] .
    • 1971, American Society of Animal Science. Journal of Animal Science, Volume 32, Pages 601-1298, page 1281,
      In Australia “placer” lambs are also destroyed, for these too are of little use; they will return constantly to one place, not staying with the flock.
See also

Etymology 3

From American (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish placer, from earlier placel, apparently from obsolete Portuguese placel.

Pronunciation

Adjective

placer (not comparable)

  1. (mining) alluvial; occurring in a deposit of sand or earth on a river-bed or bank, particularly with reference to precious metals such as gold or silver
    • 1995, Paul T. Craddock, Early Metal Mining and Production, page 110:
      Placer gold comes from the weathering of the primary veins releasing the gold to be transported by water action and concentrated in gravel or sand beds.
    • 2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2004, page 46:
      Since time immemorial, people found that they could extract the gold from placer deposits by sifting the fine-grained material through a mesh: the technique of panning.
    • 2008, Tanyo Ravicz, Of Knives and Men, Alaskans, page 77,
      He still ran a placer mine in the Interior.

Noun

placer (plural placers)

  1. A place where the superficial detritus is washed for gold, etc.
  2. (by extension) Any place holding treasures.
Derived terms

References

  1. ^ 2011, Jonathon Green, Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime, page 104— The 20th-century buyer is self-explanatory, while the placer is a middle-man who places stolen goods with a purchaser.

Anagrams

French

Etymology

From place +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

Verb

placer

  1. to place (to put in a specific location)
  2. to seat (to put an object into a place where it will rest)
  3. (reflexive) to place (to earn a given spot in a competition)

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which 'c' is softened to a 'ç' before the vowels 'a' and 'o'.

Conjugation of placer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple placer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple plaçant
/pla.sɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle placé
/pla.se/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses) 		present place
/plas/ 		places
/plas/ 		place
/plas/ 		plaçons
/pla.sɔ̃/ 		placez
/pla.se/ 		placent
/plas/
imperfect plaçais
/pla.sɛ/ 		plaçais
/pla.sɛ/ 		plaçait
/pla.sɛ/ 		placions
/pla.sjɔ̃/ 		placiez
/pla.sje/ 		plaçaient
/pla.sɛ/
past historic2 plaçai
/pla.se/ 		plaças
/pla.sa/ 		plaça
/pla.sa/ 		plaçâmes
/pla.sam/ 		plaçâtes
/pla.sat/ 		placèrent
/pla.sɛʁ/
future placerai
/pla.sʁe/ 		placeras
/pla.sʁa/ 		placera
/pla.sʁa/ 		placerons
/pla.sʁɔ̃/ 		placerez
/pla.sʁe/ 		placeront
/pla.sʁɔ̃/
conditional placerais
/pla.sʁɛ/ 		placerais
/pla.sʁɛ/ 		placerait
/pla.sʁɛ/ 		placerions
/pla.sə.ʁjɔ̃/ 		placeriez
/pla.sə.ʁje/ 		placeraient
/pla.sʁɛ/
(compound
tenses) 		present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses) 		present place
/plas/ 		places
/plas/ 		place
/plas/ 		placions
/pla.sjɔ̃/ 		placiez
/pla.sje/ 		placent
/plas/
imperfect2 plaçasse
/pla.sas/ 		plaçasses
/pla.sas/ 		plaçât
/pla.sa/ 		plaçassions
/pla.sa.sjɔ̃/ 		plaçassiez
/pla.sa.sje/ 		plaçassent
/pla.sas/
(compound
tenses) 		past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — place
/plas/ 		— plaçons
/pla.sɔ̃/ 		placez
/pla.se/ 		—
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Related terms

Descendants

  • German: platzieren
  • Romanian: plasa

Further reading

Anagrams

Interlingua

Pronunciation

Noun

placer (uncountable)

  1. pleasure

Verb

placer

  1. to please

Conjugation

    Conjugation of placer
infinitive placer
participle present perfect
placente placite
active simple perfect
present place ha placite
past placeva habeva placite
future placera habera placite
conditional placerea haberea placite
imperative place
passive simple perfect
present es placite ha essite placite
past esseva placite habeva essite placite
future essera placite habera essite placite
conditional esserea placite haberea essite placite
imperative sia placite

Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) plācer

  1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of plācō

Spanish

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

From Latin placēre, present active infinitive of placeō, with an irregular phonetic development, by preserving the initial consonant cluster. Compare Portuguese prazer.

Verb

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  1. (intransitive, used with indirect object pronouns) to like (something or someone)
    Esto me place mucho.
    I really like this.
  2. (literary) to please (somebody)
Usage notes

The third-person forms with the stems plug- and pleg- (plugo, pluguiera, plega/plegue, pluguieron, pluguieran, etc.) are archaic. In modern literature they may be used in place of forms such as plació, plazca and placiera with the intention of recalling old-fashioned style.[1]

Conjugation

Template:es-conj-er

See also

Noun

placer m (plural placeres)

  1. pleasure; something done to please
    Ha sido un placer conocerte.
    It was a pleasure to meet you

Related terms

Etymology 2

Related to placel ‘sandbank’, from plaza ‘place’.

Noun

placer m (plural placeres)

  1. (geology, mining) placer
  2. (nautical) sandbank

References

  1. ^ “placer” in Diccionario panhispánico de dudas, segunda edición, Real Academia Española, 2023. →ISBN

Anagrams

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