placid

See also: plàcid and Placid

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin placeō

Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-der.

Latin -idus

Latin placiduslbor.

French placide

English placid

Borrowed from French placide, from Latin placidus (“peaceful, calm, placid”), from placeō (“please, satisfy”).

Pronunciation

• (weak vowel distinction) IPA^(key): /ˈplæs.ɪd/, [ˈpʰlæs.ɪd]
• (weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈplæs.əd/, [ˈpʰlæs.əd]

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• Rhymes: -æsɪd
• Hyphenation: plac‧id

Adjective

placid (comparative placider, superlative placidest)

1. calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil

   Synonyms: cool-headed, serene; see also Thesaurus:calm

   a placid disposition

   a placid lake

   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 9, in Jane Eyre‎^[1], HTML edition:

     April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration.

   • 1941, Ogden Nash, “The Ant”, in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224:

     The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?

   • 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)‎^[2]:

     [I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.

Derived terms

• Lake Placid
• placidity
• placidly
• placidness
• Placidyl
• unplacid

Related terms

• placable
• placate

Translations

calm and quiet; peaceful

• Arabic: هادئ, ساكن (ar)
• Bulgarian: спокоен (bg) (spokoen), ведър (bg) (vedǎr), мирен (bg) (miren)
• Catalan: plàcid (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 平靜 / 平静 (zh) (píngjìng), 寧靜 / 宁静 (zh) (níngjìng)

• Czech: klidný (cs), poklidný (cs), tichý (cs)
• Dutch: rustig (nl), vreedzaam (nl)
• Esperanto: trankvila (eo), kalma (eo)
• French: placide (fr) m or f
• German: ruhig (de), friedlich (de), sanft (de)
• Irish: séimh
• Italian: placido (it)
• Japanese: 静かな (ja) (しずかな, shizuka na), 平静な (ja) (へいせいな, heisei na)
• Latin: placidus
• Manx: oayllaashagh
• Māori: māhuruhuru, mākoha
• Polish: łagodny (pl) m, spokojny (pl) m
• Portuguese: plácido (pt) m, calmo (pt) m, tranquilo (pt) m
• Romanian: liniștit (ro), placid (ro), calm (ro)
• Russian: споко́йный (ru) (spokójnyj), безмяте́жный (ru) (bezmjatéžnyj), ми́рный (ru) (mírnyj)
• Sicilian: pràzitu
• Spanish: plácido (es)
• Swedish: lugn (sv), stilla (sv)
• Turkish: durgun (tr), sakin (tr)
• Uzbek: sokin (uz)
• Zazaki: vınderde m, vınderdi f

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French placide.

Adjective

placid m or n (feminine singular placidă, masculine plural placizi, feminine/neuter plural placide)

1. placid

Declension

Declension of placid

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	placid		placidă	placizi	placide
	definite	placidul		placida	placizii	placidele
genitive- dative	indefinite	placid		placide	placizi	placide
	definite	placidului		placidei	placizilor	placidelor

Related terms

• placiditate