different between placket vs placet

English

Etymology

From French plaquer (“to lay or clap on”). See placard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?plæk?t/
• Rhymes: -æk?t

Noun

placket (plural plackets)

1. A slit or other opening in an item of clothing, to allow access to pockets or fastenings
2. (obsolete) A petticoat, especially an underpetticoat.
3. (obsolete, slang, by extension) A woman.
4. (obsolete) A woman's pocket.
5. (historical) A leather jacket strengthened with strips of steel.
6. (historical) An additional plate of steel on the lower half of the breastplate or backplate.

   Synonyms: placcat, placcate

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.