plaer

Catalan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Catalan plaer, plaser, related to Old Occitan plazer and its variants, from Latin placēre. The Old Catalan word was mainly used as a verb, "to please", and this was later replaced by the likely analogical form plaure,[1] while the original infinitive was maintained in a more abstract and noun form: compare a similar development in French plaisir (“pleasure”) vs. plaire (“to please”). Compare also the noun use of Occitan plaser (“pleasure”), Italian piacere, Spanish placer, Romanian plăcere, etc., from the Latin infinitive.

Pronunciation

Noun

plaer m (plural plaers)

  1. pleasure

References
  1. “plaer”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023

Middle English

Noun

plaer

  1. Alternative form of pleyer
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