placabilis Latin · revision 33993

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=derivation|attested=190–159 BC, Terence|origins=la plācō}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * Classical: [pɫaːˈkaː.bɪ.lɪs]^(Wiktionary)

+ * Ecclesiastical: [plaˈkaː.bi.lis]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''plācābilis''' (neuter plācābile, comparative plācābilior); third-declension two-termination adjective^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[af|la|plācō|-bilis|t1=to appease]].^(OLD 2012)^(TLL)^(Wiktionary) De Vaan takes the verb as probably made from a noun, from [[ine-pro|*pl(e)h₂/₃k-|t=to agree, be pleasant]], with a cognate only in [[xto|plāk-|t=to agree]].^(de Vaan 2008)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ De Vaan and Köbler date it from Terence,^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010) in whose ''Adelphoe'' it is more conciliatory to clear oneself in person.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ In Terence it means fit to appease, conciliatory.^(OLD 2012) More often it means easily appeased, quick to forgive:^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879) the ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' blames a man who is placable to his enemies and implacable to his friends, and Ovid speaks of the anger of the gods that can be appeased by sacrifices.^(OLD 2012) Cicero and Antony use the comparative, but no superlative is found.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879) Seneca calls the thunderbolt that Jupiter sends alone peaceful in intent, unlike the destructive one he sends with other gods.^(OLD 2012) In Church Latin it is "easily appeased",^(Stelten 1995) and in medieval Latin it also means propitiatory or expiatory.^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence of a conciliatory step.^(OLD 2012)^(de Vaan 2008)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 86/82 BC – The ''Rhetorica ad Herennium'' of a man placable to enemies.^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 81–43 BC – Cicero in the comparative.^(TLL)^(Lewis & Short 1879)

+ * 43 BC–18 AD – Ovid of the anger of the gods.^(OLD 2012)

+ * 4 BC–65 AD – Seneca of a peaceful thunderbolt.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Adjective===

+ # Easily appeased, quick to forgive, [[m|en|placable]].^(OLD 2012)^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

+ # Fit to appease, [[m|en|conciliatory]]; propitiatory.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # (of omens) Peaceful in intent.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''(Medieval Latin)'' Propitiatory, [[m|en|expiatory]].^(Niermeyer 1976)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[implācābilis]]

+ * [[plācābilitās]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[plācō]]

+ * [[placeō]]

+ * [[en|placable]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}