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Where does “placet” come from?

placet (Latin) comes from Latin placeo, from Proto-Indo-European plā-k- — wide and flat.

placet (Latin): third-person singular present active indicative...

Definitions

  1. third-person singular present active indicative...

Ancestry of “placet”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1LatinplaceoI am pleasing or agreeable to; I please; I am...
2Proto-Indo-Europeanplā-k-wide and flat

Words derived from “placet”

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