placitum

== English == === Etymology === See placit. === Noun === placitum (plural placita) (historical) A public court or assembly in the Middle Ages, over which the sovereign presided when a consultation was held upon affairs of state. (UK, law, obsolete) A court, or cause in court. (law) A plea; a pleading; a judicial proceeding; a suit. (law, US, Australia) a legal decision made by a judge or court. == Latin == === Etymology === Neuter gender of placitus. === Noun === placitum n (genitive placitī); second declension opinion, teaching, theory decree, sentence, suit, litigation plea ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== Catalan: plet Dalmatian: aplič Old French: plait → Dutch: pleit → English: plea Galician: preito Italian: piato Portuguese: preito, pleito Spanish: pleito → Italian: placito → Portuguese: plácito → Spanish: plácito → Welsh: plegyd === Participle === placitum nominative neuter singular of placitus === References === “placitum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "placitum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “placitum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.