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Latin
Etymology
From dis- + placeō.
Pronunciation
Verb
displiceō (present infinitive displicēre, perfect active displicuī, supine displicitum); second conjugation
- to displease (with dative)
8 CE – 12 CE,
Ovid,
Sorrows 1.49–50:
- dēnique sēcūrus fāmae, liber, īre mementō,
nec tibi sit lectō displicuisse pudor.- Lastly, book, you remember to go untroubled by reputation; nor should you be ashamed, by having been read, to be displeasing.
(The exiled poet addresses his new book as if it is a living emissary; Ovid's tarnished reputation may color the book’s reception back in Rome.)
- to be displeased
- Antonyms: gaudeō, placeō, ovō, grātulor, congrātulor, exhilarō, fruor
Conjugation
References
- “displiceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “displiceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- displiceo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) to be in a bad temper: sibi displicere (opp. sibi placere)