placitum Latin · revision 33265

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=70–19 BC, Virgil|origins=itc-pro *plak-ē-}}

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''placitum''' ''n'' (genitive placitī); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ Used as a noun, it is the neuter participle [[der|la|placitus|t=pleasing, agreed]], from [[m|la|placeō|t=to please]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Etymonline) De Vaan traces [[m|la|placeō]] to [[itc-pro|*plak-ē-]] and a root [[ine-pro|*pl(e)h₂k-|t=to agree, be pleasant]], whose only certain relatives are in Tocharian.^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Köbler dates it from Virgil.^(Köbler 2010) The OLD's examples of the noun start with Seneca, who speaks of “our tenets”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ Literally it is what pleases or is agreed on.^(Etymonline) In the classical period it is a tenet or opinion: Columella has the opinions of the old authors, Pliny the Elder those of the Babylonians on earthquakes, and Tacitus the teachings of the philosophers.^(OLD 2012) In law it is an agreed condition: Ulpian defines a pact as the consent of two or more to the same ''placitum''.^(OLD 2012) In Church Latin it is an agreement, resolution, decision or pledge.^(Stelten 1995) In medieval Latin it became the agreed meeting and the assembly for judicial or legislative business, and so a court of law, as in the letters of Boniface and in Domesday Book.^(DMLBS) Through Old French [[m|fro|plait|t=lawsuit, decision]] it gave English [[m|en|plea]] (early 13th century).^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 70–19 BC – Virgil.^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca, of philosophical tenets.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * before 223 AD – Ulpian, of an agreed condition.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 753 – Boniface, of an assembly.^(DMLBS)

+ * early 13th century – English [[m|en|plea]], through Anglo-French and Old French.^(Etymonline)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|tenet]], opinion, teaching.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # ''(law)'' An agreed condition, [[m|en|agreement]];^(OLD 2012)^(DMLBS)^(Stelten 1995) a decision, decree.^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' An assembly for judicial business, a court, [[m|en|moot]];^(DMLBS) a lawsuit, [[m|en|plea]].^(Etymonline)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[placeō]]

+ * [[placitus]]

+ * [[en|plea]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}