different between ordinance vs placet

English

Alternative forms

• (obsolete) ordinaunce

Etymology

From Middle English (ca. 1300), from Old French ordenance (Modern French ordonnance) "decree, command", from Middle Latin ordinantia, from ordinans, the present participle of Latin ordinare "put in order" (whence ordain).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???d(?)n?ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???d(?)n?ns/

Noun

ordinance (plural ordinances)

1. A local law (US)
2. An edict or decree, authoritative order.
   1. (England) Prior to the Third English Civil War, a decree of Parliament.
   2. (Britain, pre-1992 universities, Commonwealth of Nations) Detailed legislation that translates the broad principles of the university's charter and statutes into practical effect.
   3. (Hong Kong) A law enacted by the Hong Kong Legislative Council.
   4. (India) A temporary law promulgated by the President of India on the recommendation of the Union Cabinet.
3. A religious practice or ritual prescribed by the church.

Usage notes

This word is sometimes confused with ordnance, or military weaponry.

Derived terms

• ordnance

Translations

References

• “ordinance”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• draconine

English

Etymology

Latin it is pleasing, inflection of place? (“I am pleasing”).

Noun

placet (plural placets)

1. A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc.
2. The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Shipley to this entry?)

   • J. P. Peters

     The king […] annulled the royal placet.

Interjection

placet

1. Expression of assent to a vote in the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc.

Anagrams

• caplet

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin placet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla.s?/

Noun

placet m (plural placets)

1. (historical) petition, appeal

Further reading

• “placet” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

placet m (invariable)

1. consent, approval, pleasure

   Synonyms: assenso, consenso, approvazione, beneplacito

Latin

Verb

placet

1. third-person singular present active indicative of place?: "he/she/it pleases"

   Vide?mus, s? placet.

   Let us see, if he/she/it pleases.