different between placative vs placate

English

Etymology

placate +? -ive

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pl??ke?t?v/
• Rhymes: -e?t?v
• Rhymes: -e?t?v

Adjective

placative (comparative more placative, superlative most placative)

1. (chiefly US) That placates; pacifying.
   • 1914, Booth Tarkington, Penrod, ch. 21:

     Penrod's answer, like the look he lifted to the impressive stranger, was meek and placative.

   • 1931, William Faulkner, Sanctuary, Vintage 1993, p. 64:

     Temple entered the dining-room from the kitchen, her face fixed in a cringing, placative expression [...].

Synonyms

• placatory

Derived terms

• placatively

Translations

English

Etymology

From Latin pl?c?tus, past participle of pl?c? (“appease, placate”, literally “smooth, smoothen”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl?k- (“smooth, flat”), from *pele- (“broad, flat, plain”). Related to Latin place? (“appease”), Old English fl?h (“flat stone, chip”). More at please.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pl??ke?t/, /ple??ke?t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ple?ke?t/, /ple??ke?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t

Verb

placate (third-person singular simple present placates, present participle placating, simple past and past participle placated)

1. (transitive) To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate.

Synonyms

• (to calm): appease, conciliate, mollify, propitiate, satisfy

Antonyms

• (to calm): enrage

Derived terms

Related terms

• placid

Translations

Anagrams

• epactal

Italian

Verb

placate

1. second-person plural present of placare
2. second-person plural imperative of placare
3. feminine plural past participle of placare

Anagrams

• catalpe

Latin

Verb

pl?c?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of pl?c?

References

• placate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• placate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• placate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette