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.

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “placitum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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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
• English: plea
• Old French: plait

• Italian: piato, placito
• Portuguese: preito, pleito, plácito
• Spanish: pleito, plácito

Participle

(deprecated template usage) 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.