placet

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin it is pleasing, inflection of placeō (“I am pleasing”).

Noun

placet (plural placets)

1. A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc.
2. The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shipley to this entry?)

   • J. P. Peters

     The king […] annulled the royal placet.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “placet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Interjection

placet

1. Expression of assent to a vote in the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc.

Anagrams

• caplet

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin placet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla.sɛ/

Noun

placet m (plural placets)

1. (historical) petition, appeal

Further reading

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

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Italian

Noun

placet m (uncountable)

1. consent, approval, pleasure

Synonyms

• assenso, consenso, approvazione, beneplacito

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) placet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of placeō: "he/she/it pleases"

   Videamus, si placet.

   Let us see, if he/she/it pleases.