different between placid vs placoid

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)

1. 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)

1. placid

Declension

Related terms

• placiditate

English

Etymology

Ancient Greek plac- +? -oid

Adjective

placoid (not comparable)

1. Platelike; having irregular, platelike, bony scales, often bearing spines; pertaining to the placoid fish
   • 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.68:

     What about the carp? He regarded the two placoid shapes with doubt.

Noun

placoid (plural placoids)

1. Such a scale
2. Any fish having placoid scales, such as the sharks

Related terms

• microplacoid

References

• placoid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• podalic, podical