placitum

English

Etymology

See placit.

Noun

placitum (plural placita)

1. (historical) A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign presided when a consultation was held upon affairs of state.
2. (UK, law, obsolete) A court, or cause in court.
3. (law) A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit.

   "By deleting in placitum the amount of 7c and inserting in lieu thereof the amount of 9c."

4. (law, US, Australia) a legal decision made by a judge or court.

Latin

Etymology

Neuter gender of placitus.

Noun

placitum n (genitive placitī); second declension

1. opinion, teaching, theory
2. decree, sentence, suit, litigation
3. plea

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	placitum	placita
Genitive	placitī	placitōrum
Dative	placitō	placitīs
Accusative	placitum	placita
Ablative	placitō	placitīs
Vocative	placitum	placita

Descendants

• Dalmatian: aplič
• Old French: plait
  • → English: plea
• Galician: preito
• Italian: piato
• Portuguese: preito, pleito
• Spanish: pleito
• → Italian: placito
• → Portuguese: plácito
• → Spanish: plácito

Participle

placitum

1. nominative neuter singular of placitus

References

• “placitum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• placitum 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)
• placitum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.