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placid
English
Etymology
From French placide, from Latin placidus (“peaceful, calm, placid”), from place? (“please, satisfy”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?plæs.?d/
- Rhymes: -æs?d
Adjective
placid (comparative placider, superlative placidest)
- calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil
- a placid disposition
- a placid lake
- 1941, Ogden Nash, "The Ant", in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224.
- The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
Derived terms
- placidness
- placidity
Translations
Romanian
Etymology
From French placide
Adjective
placid m or n (feminine singular placid?, masculine plural placizi, feminine and neuter plural placide)
- placid
Declension
Related terms
- placiditate
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placify
English
Etymology
Compare pacify, placid.
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Verb
placify (third-person singular simple present placifies, present participle placifying, simple past and past participle placified)
- (rare) To create a peaceful and calm environment; to make placid.
- (rare, transitive) To calm (someone), to pacify.
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