English
placable
Placable comes from Latin plāco ‘to placate, pacify, assuage, soothe, calm, quiet’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEplāco1‘to placate, pacify, assuage, soothe, calm, quiet’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEplācābilis2
- Englishearliest quotation 1538placable2
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
- 1 Wiktionary, Latin placabilis
- 2 Wiktionary, English placable
- Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1538, Erasmus Sarcerius, Common Places of Scripture: “The scripture is ful of places whiche teache these…”.
Earlier history uncertain. See Wiktionary.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEplācoWiktionary, Latin placabilis‘to placate, pacify, assuage, soothe, calm, quiet’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEplācābilisWiktionary, English placable
- Englishearliest quotation 1538placableWiktionary, English placable. Earliest quotation in Wiktionary’s entry: 1538, Erasmus Sarcerius, Common Places of Scripture: “The scripture is ful of places whiche teache these…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *pleHk- ‘pleasingness or permission’
through Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- ‘wide and flat’
field, floor, explain, plane, palm, explanation, plain, clan, archipelago, fluke, explanatory, parma, flounder, playa, planar, palatine, placenta, polonium, esplanade, pelagic, veld, plantar, lech, flay, floe, purdah, llano, planta, 50 more
Today it means
adj Able to be easily pacified; quick to forgive.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin plāco / placable