placate

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.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pləˈkeɪt/, /pleɪˈkeɪt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪkeɪt/, /pleɪˈkeɪt/

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• Rhymes: -eɪt

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.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

• (to calm): appease, conciliate, mollify, propitiate, satisfy

• (to calm): enrage

• placid

• epactal

placate

1. inflection of placare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative
   3. feminine plural past participle

• catalpe

plācāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of plācō

• “placate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “placate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• placate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette