Words that come from Latin placeō

336 words across 54 languages descend from Latin placeō — including pleasure, please, playing, pleased, pleasing, plea, pleading, plead.

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English (126)

Latin (23)

Spanish (17)

French (16)

Finnish (16)

Middle English (14)

Italian (12)

Old French (12)

Esperanto (9)

Dutch (9)

Irish (7)

Ido (5)

Middle French (5)

Portuguese (5)

Romanian (5)

Welsh (5)

Albanian (4)

Catalan (3)

German (3)

Dalmatian (2)

Bengali (2)

Middle Irish (2)

Anglo-Norman (2)

Swedish (2)

Aromanian (1)

Ancient Greek (1)

Estonian (1)

Sranan Tongo (1)

Venetian (1)

Ligurian (1)

Friulian (1)

Old Occitan (1)

Luxembourgish (1)

Russian (1)

Old Portuguese (1)

Norman (1)

Hindi (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Middle Dutch (1)

Old Spanish (1)

Tok Pisin (1)

Proto-Albanian (1)

Medieval Latin (1)

Old Catalan (1)

Basque (1)

Champenois (1)

Emilian (1)

Yola (1)

Chavacano (1)

Afrikaans (1)

Mauritian Creole (1)

Seychellois Creole (1)

Czech (1)

Korean (1)