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English
Etymology
From French placide, from Latin placidus (“peaceful, calm, placid”), from placeō (“please, satisfy”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
placid (comparative placider, superlative placidest)
- calm and quiet; peaceful; tranquil
- a placid disposition
- a placid lake
- 1847, Charlotte Brontë, chapter 9, in Jane Eyre[1], HTML edition:
- April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration.
- 1941, Ogden Nash, “The Ant”, in The Face is Familiar, Garden City Publishing Company, page 224:
- The ant has made himself illustrious / Through constant industry industrious. / So what? / Would you be calm and placid / If you were full of formic acid?
- 2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)[2]:
- [I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.
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Translations
calm and quiet; peaceful
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Romanian
Etymology
Adjective
placid m or n (feminine singular placidă, masculine plural placizi, feminine and neuter plural placide)
Declension
Declension of placid
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative |
indefinite | placid | placidă | placizi | placide | ||
definite | placidul | placida | placizii | placidele | |||
genitive/ dative |
indefinite | placid | placide | placizi | placide | ||
definite | placidului | placidei | placizilor | placidelor |
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