"placate" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

IPA: /pləˈkeɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /pleɪˈkeɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpleɪkeɪt/ [Canada, US], /pleɪˈkeɪt/ [Canada, US], /pləˈkeɪt/ [General-Australian] Audio: en-us-placate.ogg , en-au-placate.ogg Forms: placates [present, singular, third-person], placating [participle, present], placated [participle, past], placated [past]
Rhymes: -eɪt Etymology: From Latin plācātus, past participle of plācō (“appease, placate”, literally “smooth, smoothen”), from Proto-Indo-European *plāk- (“smooth, flat”), from *pele- (“broad, flat, plain”). Related to Latin placeō (“appease”), Old English flōh (“flat stone, chip”). More at please. Etymology templates: {{bor|en|la|plācātus}} Latin plācātus, {{der|en|ine-pro|*plāk-||smooth, flat}} Proto-Indo-European *plāk- (“smooth, flat”), {{cog|la|placeō||appease}} Latin placeō (“appease”), {{cog|ang|flōh||flat stone, chip}} Old English flōh (“flat stone, chip”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} placate (third-person singular simple present placates, present participle placating, simple past and past participle placated)
  1. (transitive) To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate. Tags: transitive Synonyms: appease, soothe, conciliate, mollify, propitiate, satisfy Derived forms: placater, placating, placatingly, placation, placative, placatory Related terms: placid Translations (to calm): هَدَّأَ (haddaʔa) (Arabic), اِسْتَرْضَى (istarḍā) (Arabic), հանգստացնել (hangstacʻnel) (Armenian), успокоявам (uspokojavam) (Bulgarian), омиротворявам (omirotvorjavam) (Bulgarian), 安撫 (Chinese Mandarin), 安抚 (ānfǔ) (Chinese Mandarin), 平息 (píngxí) (Chinese Mandarin), uklidnit [perfective] (Czech), zklidnit [perfective] (Czech), utišit [perfective] (Czech), kalmeren (Dutch), bedaren (Dutch), sussen (Dutch), lepyttää (Finnish), rauhoittaa (Finnish), apaiser (French), calmer (French), beschwichtigen (German), besänftigen (German), begütigen (German), beruhigen (German), 𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐌰𐍆𐌰𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽 (fullafahjan) (Gothic), κατευνάζω (katevnázo) (Greek), הרגיע (hirgía) (Hebrew), kiengesztel (Hungarian), róa (Icelandic), sefa (Icelandic), fróa (Icelandic), placare (Italian), なだめる (nadameru) (Japanese), កំសាន្ត (kɑmsaan) (Khmer), pācificō (Latin), whakamārie (Maori), whakamauru (Maori), aplacar (Portuguese), умиротворя́ть (umirotvorjátʹ) (Russian), успока́ивать (uspokáivatʹ) (Russian), унимать (unimatʹ) (Russian), утихомиривать (utixomirivatʹ) (Russian), umiriti (Serbo-Croatian), умирити (Serbo-Croatian), smiriti (Serbo-Croatian), смирити (Serbo-Croatian), aplacar (Spanish), blidka (Swedish), ปลอบโยน (bplòp yohn) (Thai), ปลอบใจ (bplòp jai) (Thai), xoa dịu (Vietnamese)

Verb [Italian]

Head templates: {{head|it|verb form}} placate
  1. inflection of placare:
    second-person plural present indicative
    Tags: form-of, indicative, plural, present, second-person Form of: placare
    Sense id: en-placate-it-verb-lHlCHLF0 Categories (other): Italian entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Italian entries with incorrect language header: 85 11 4 Disambiguation of Pages with 4 entries: 85 9 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 91 5 4
  2. inflection of placare:
    second-person plural imperative
    Tags: form-of, imperative, plural, second-person Form of: placare
    Sense id: en-placate-it-verb-HOTmkvW1
  3. inflection of placare:
    feminine plural past participle
    Tags: feminine, form-of, participle, past, plural Form of: placare
    Sense id: en-placate-it-verb-2GG0NXd7

Verb [Latin]

Forms: plācāte [canonical]
Head templates: {{head|la|verb form|head=plācāte}} plācāte
  1. second-person plural present active imperative of plācō Tags: active, form-of, imperative, plural, present, second-person Form of: plācō
    Sense id: en-placate-la-verb--NAdyS33 Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries

Verb [Spanish]

Head templates: {{head|es|verb form}} placate
  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of placar combined with te Tags: form-of, imperative, object-second-person, object-singular, second-person, singular, with-voseo Form of: placar
    Sense id: en-placate-es-verb-ZjJz3hji Categories (other): Pages with 4 entries, Pages with entries, Spanish entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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        "(transitive) To calm; to bring peace to; to influence someone who was furious to the point that they become content or at least no longer irate."
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "ānfǔ",
          "sense": "to calm",
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
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          "sense": "to calm",
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          "word": "kalmeren"
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          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "bedaren"
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          "lang": "Dutch",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "sussen"
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          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "lepyttää"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "rauhoittaa"
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        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "apaiser"
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        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "calmer"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "beschwichtigen"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "besänftigen"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "begütigen"
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        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "beruhigen"
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          "code": "got",
          "lang": "Gothic",
          "roman": "fullafahjan",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐌰𐍆𐌰𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽"
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          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "katevnázo",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "κατευνάζω"
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          "code": "he",
          "lang": "Hebrew",
          "roman": "hirgía",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "הרגיע"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "kiengesztel"
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        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "róa"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "sefa"
        },
        {
          "code": "is",
          "lang": "Icelandic",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "fróa"
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          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "placare"
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        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "nadameru",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "なだめる"
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        {
          "code": "km",
          "lang": "Khmer",
          "roman": "kɑmsaan",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "កំសាន្ត"
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          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "pācificō"
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          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to calm",
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        {
          "code": "mi",
          "lang": "Maori",
          "sense": "to calm",
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          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "aplacar"
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          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "umirotvorjátʹ",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "умиротворя́ть"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "uspokáivatʹ",
          "sense": "to calm",
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "unimatʹ",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "унимать"
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "utixomirivatʹ",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "утихомиривать"
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          "sense": "to calm",
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          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to calm",
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          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "smiriti"
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        {
          "code": "sh",
          "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "смирити"
        },
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "aplacar"
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          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "blidka"
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          "code": "th",
          "lang": "Thai",
          "roman": "bplòp yohn",
          "sense": "to calm",
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          "roman": "bplòp jai",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "ปลอบใจ"
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        {
          "code": "vi",
          "lang": "Vietnamese",
          "sense": "to calm",
          "word": "xoa dịu"
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      "ipa": "/ˈpleɪkeɪt/",
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      "roman": "haddaʔa",
      "sense": "to calm",
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      "word": "اِسْتَرْضَى"
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      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "հանգստացնել"
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      "sense": "to calm",
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      "word": "安撫"
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      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "安抚"
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      "sense": "to calm",
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      "code": "cs",
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      "word": "kalmeren"
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      "word": "bedaren"
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    {
      "code": "nl",
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      "word": "sussen"
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      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "lepyttää"
    },
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "rauhoittaa"
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      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "apaiser"
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      "code": "fr",
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      "word": "calmer"
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "beschwichtigen"
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    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "besänftigen"
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    {
      "code": "de",
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      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "begütigen"
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    {
      "code": "de",
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      "word": "beruhigen"
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      "roman": "fullafahjan",
      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "𐍆𐌿𐌻𐌻𐌰𐍆𐌰𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽"
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      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "κατευνάζω"
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      "code": "he",
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      "word": "הרגיע"
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      "code": "hu",
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      "word": "kiengesztel"
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      "code": "is",
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      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "róa"
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      "code": "is",
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      "word": "sefa"
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      "code": "is",
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      "word": "fróa"
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      "code": "ja",
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      "roman": "nadameru",
      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "なだめる"
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      "code": "km",
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      "roman": "kɑmsaan",
      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "កំសាន្ត"
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    {
      "code": "la",
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      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "pācificō"
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    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "whakamārie"
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    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "whakamauru"
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      "code": "pt",
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      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "aplacar"
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      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "умиротворя́ть"
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      "word": "успока́ивать"
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      "roman": "unimatʹ",
      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "унимать"
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      "word": "утихомиривать"
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      "code": "sh",
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      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "umiriti"
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      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "умирити"
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    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "smiriti"
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      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "смирити"
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      "word": "aplacar"
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "blidka"
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      "code": "th",
      "lang": "Thai",
      "roman": "bplòp yohn",
      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "ปลอบโยน"
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      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "ปลอบใจ"
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      "code": "vi",
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      "sense": "to calm",
      "word": "xoa dịu"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "second-person singular voseo imperative of placar combined with te"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "placar",
          "placar#Spanish"
        ],
        [
          "te",
          "te#Spanish"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "imperative",
        "object-second-person",
        "object-singular",
        "second-person",
        "singular",
        "with-voseo"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "placate"
}

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