different between placer vs placet

English

Etymology 1

From place +? -er (agent noun suffix).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ple?s?(?)/
• Rhymes: -e?s?(?)

Noun

placer (plural placers)

1. One who places or arranges something.
2. (slang) One who deals in stolen goods; a fence.

Synonyms

• (one who places):
• (dealer in stolen goods): fence, receiver

Etymology 2

From place +? -er (suffix apparently denoting association).

Noun

placer (plural placers)

1. (ethology, sheep, Australia, New Zealand) A lamb whose mother has died and which has transferred its attachment to an object, such as a bush or rock, in the locality.
   • 1951, Josiah Macy, Jr. Foundation, Problems of Infancy and Childhood, Volume 4, page 101,

     This is a “placer” sheep, as it is called. The prerequisites to this condition are that the young sheep must be still nursing, but must have begun to nibble grass. It must be the young of a mother that has been somewhat isolated, away from the corral and away from the herd, by herself out on the prairie. Now, when the mother dies, the lamb remains close to the mother?s body […] .

   • 1971, American Society of Animal Science. Journal of Animal Science, Volume 32, Pages 601-1298, page 1281,

     In Australia “placer” lambs are also destroyed, for these too are of little use; they will return constantly to one place, not staying with the flock.

See also

• cade, poddy
• imprinting

Etymology 3

From American Spanish placer, from earlier placel, apparently from obsolete Portuguese placel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?plæs?(?)/, /?ple?s?(?)/
• Rhymes: -æs?(?)
• Rhymes: -e?s?(?)

Adjective

placer (not comparable)

1. (mining) alluvial; occurring in a deposit of sand or earth on a river-bed or bank, particularly with reference to precious metals such as gold or silver
   • 1995, Paul T. Craddock, Early Metal Mining and Production, page 110:

     Placer gold comes from the weathering of the primary veins releasing the gold to be transported by water action and concentrated in gravel or sand beds.

   • 2002, Philip Ball, The Elements: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford 2004, page 46:

     Since time immemorial, people found that they could extract the gold from placer deposits by sifting the fine-grained material through a mesh: the technique of panning.

   • 2008, Tanyo Ravicz, Of Knives and Men, Alaskans, page 77,

     He still ran a placer mine in the Interior.

Noun

placer (plural placers)

1. A place where the superficial detritus is washed for gold, etc.
2. (by extension) Any place holding treasures.

Derived terms

• Placer County

References

Anagrams

• carpel, craple, parcel

French

Etymology

From place +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla.se/
• Homophones: placé, placés, placée, placées, placez, plaçai

Verb

placer

1. to place (to put in a specific location)
2. to seat (to put an object into a place where it will rest)
3. (reflexive) to place (to earn a given spot in a competition)

Conjugation

This verb is part of a group of -er verbs for which ‘c’ is softened to a ‘ç’ before the vowels ‘a’ and ‘o’.

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Danish: placere
• ? German: platzieren
• ? Romanian: plasa

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• claper

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla?tser/

Noun

placer (uncountable)

1. pleasure

Verb

placer

1. to please

Conjugation

Latin

Verb

pl?cer

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of pl?c?

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /pla??e?/, [pla??e?]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /pla?se?/, [pla?se?]

Etymology 1

From Latin plac?re, present active infinitive of place?, with an irregular phonetic development, by preserving the initial consonant cluster. Compare Portuguese prazer.

Verb

placer (first-person singular present plazco, first-person singular preterite plací, past participle placido)

1. (intransitive, used with indirect object pronouns) to like (something or someone)

2. (literary) to please (somebody)

Usage notes

The third-person forms with the stems plug- and pleg- (plugo, pluguiera, plega/plegue, pluguieron, pluguieran, etc.) are archaic. In modern literature they may be used in place of forms such as plació, plazca and placiera with the intention of recalling old-fashioned style.

Conjugation

See also

• gustar

Noun

placer m (plural placeres)

1. pleasure; something done to please

Derived terms

Related terms

• complacer

Etymology 2

Related to placel ‘sandbank’, from plaza ‘place’.

Noun

placer m (plural placeres)

1. (geology, mining) placer
2. (nautical) sandbank

References

Anagrams

• percal

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.

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   • 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.