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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, 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):[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.
Derived terms
Translations
calm and quiet; peaceful
- Arabic: هادئ, ساكن (ar)
- Bulgarian: спокоен (bg) (spokoen), ведър (bg) (vedǎr), мирен (bg) (miren)
- Catalan: plàcid (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 平靜／平静 (zh) (píngjìng), 寧靜／宁静 (zh) (níngjìng)
- Czech: klidný (cs), poklidný (cs), tichý (cs)
- Dutch: rustig (nl), vreedzaam (nl)
- Esperanto: trankvila (eo), kalma (eo)
- French: placide (fr) m or f
- German: ruhig (de), friedlich (de), sanft (de)
- Italian: placido (it)
- Japanese: 静かな (ja) (しずかな, shizuka na), 平静な (ja) (へいせいな, heisei na)
- Latin: placidus
- Manx: oayllaashagh
- Maori: māhuruhuru, mākoha
- Polish: łagodny (pl) m, spokojny (pl) m
- Portuguese: plácido (pt) m, calmo (pt) m, tranquilo (pt) m
- Romanian: liniștit (ro), placid (ro), calm (ro)
- Russian: споко́йный (ru) (spokójnyj), безмяте́жный (ru) (bezmjatéžnyj), ми́рный (ru) (mírnyj)
- Spanish: plácido (es)
- Swedish: lugn (sv), stilla (sv)
- Turkish: durgun (tr), sakin (tr)
- Zazaki: vınderde m, vınderdi f
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Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French placide.
Adjective
placid m or n (feminine singular placidă, masculine plural placizi, feminine and neuter plural placide)
- placid
Declension