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\ \ [14] Please is at the centre of a small family of English words that go back to Latin placēre ‘please’ (a derivative of the same base as produced plācāre ‘calm, appease’, source of English implacable [16] and placate [17]).
\ \ Related English words that started life in Latin include complacent, placebo, and placid [17]. It reached English via Old French plaisir, and other derivatives picked up via Old French or Anglo-Norman are plea, plead, pleasant [14], and pleasure [14] (originally a noun use of the verb plaisir).
\ \ Cf.⇒ COMPLACENT, IMPLACABLE, PLACATE, PLACEBO, PLACID, PLEA, PLEAD, PLEASANT, PLEASURE

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