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7-letter words (1 found)

PLACEBO,

5-letter words (7 found)

BECAP,CABLE,CAPLE,COBLE,COPAL,OLPAE,PLACE,

4-letter words (40 found)

ABLE,ALBE,ALCO,ALEC,ALOE,BAEL,BALE,BEAL,BLAE,BLOC,BOEP,BOLA,BOLE,CALO,CALP,CAPE,CAPO,CLAP,CLOP,COAL,COLA,COLE,COPE,LACE,LEAP,LOBE,LOCA,LOPE,OLEA,OLPE,OPAL,PACE,PACO,PALE,PEAL,PEBA,PELA,PLEA,PLEB,POLE,

3-letter words (44 found)

ABO,ACE,ALB,ALE,ALP,APE,APO,BAC,BAE,BAL,BAO,BAP,BEL,BOA,BOP,CAB,CAL,CAP,CEL,CEP,COB,COL,COP,ECO,LAB,LAC,LAP,LEA,LEP,LOB,LOP,OBA,OBE,OCA,OLE,OPA,OPE,PAC,PAL,PEA,PEC,PEL,POA,POL,

2-letter words (16 found)

AB,AE,AL,BA,BE,BO,EA,EL,LA,LO,OB,OE,OP,PA,PE,PO,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 109 words from placebo according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of placebo

placebo

Etymology

From Middle English placebo, from Latin placēbō (“I will please”), the first-person singular future active indicative of placeō (“I please”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pləˈsiː.bəʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /pləˈsi.boʊ/
  • Rhymes: -iːbəʊ

Noun

placebo (plural placebos or placeboes)

  1. (medicine) A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment. [from 18th c.]
  2. (Roman Catholicism) The vespers sung in the office for the dead. [from 13th c.]

Derived terms

Translations

See also

  • drug
  • nocebo

Anagrams

  • Obecalp

Czech

Noun

placebo n

  1. placebo (dummy medicine containing no active ingredients)

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

  • placebo in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin placēbō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌplaːˈseː.boː/
  • Hyphenation: pla‧ce‧bo

Noun

placebo m (plural placebo's)

  1. placebo
  2. (obsolete) sycophant

Derived terms

  • het placebo zingen
  • placebo spelen

Esperanto

Etymology

Derived from Latin placēbō (“I will please”), the first-person singular future active indicative of placeō (“I please”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [plaˈt͡sebo]
  • Rhymes: -ebo
  • Hyphenation: pla‧ce‧bo

Noun

placebo (accusative singular placebon, plural placeboj, accusative plural placebojn)

  1. (medicine) placebo, dummy drug

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin placēbō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pla.se.bo/

Noun

placebo m (plural placebos)

  1. placebo

Further reading

  • “placebo”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Interlingua

Noun

placebo (plural placebos)

  1. placebo

Italian

Etymology

From Latin placēbō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plaˈt͡ʃɛ.bo/
  • Rhymes: -ɛbo
  • Hyphenation: pla‧cè‧bo

Noun

placebo m (invariable)

  1. (pharmacology, figurative) placebo

Derived terms

  • effetto placebo

Latin

Verb

placēbō

  1. first-person singular future active indicative of placeō

References

  • placebo in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

Middle English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin placēbo, the first-person singular future active indicative of placeō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plaːˈsɛːbɔː/

Noun

placebo (plural placeboes)

  1. (Christianity) The vespers sung in the office for the dead.
  2. Talk for buttering someone up, making them sycophantic or pleasing them.
  3. A representation or exemplar of adulation or sycophancy.

Descendants

  • English: placebo

References

  • “plācēbo, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-05-07.

Polish

Etymology

From Latin placēbo.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plaˈt͡sɛ.bɔ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛbɔ
  • Syllabification: pla‧ce‧bo

Noun

placebo n (indeclinable)

  1. (medicine) placebo

Further reading

  • placebo in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • placebo in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Hyphenation: pla‧ce‧bo

Noun

placebo m (plural placebos)

  1. (medicine) placebo (a dummy medicine containing no active ingredients)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French placebo.

Noun

placebo n (uncountable)

  1. placebo

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From medical New Latin placēbō, from Latin placēbō (literally “I will please”).

Noun

placebo m (plural placebos)

  1. placebo

Derived terms

Further reading

  • “placebo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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