Socratos Sign in

placidum

placidum is a Latin form of placidus, meaning “calm, peaceful, gentle”. It is the accusative singular masculine adjective.

Found 62 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Vergil, Eclogues 2.26: cum placidum ventis staret mare; non ego Daphnim

Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria 6.3.53: haec tam frigida quam est nominum fictio adiectis, detractis, mutatis litteris, ut Acisculum, quia esset pactus, Pacisculum , et Placidum nomine, quod is acerbus natura esset, Acidum , et Tullium, cum fur esset, Tollium dictos invenio.

All forms of placidus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.