placido

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

plăcĭdo, āvi, āre, v. a. [placidus],

to soothe , calm (late Lat.): cursus suos, Ambros. Virg. 3; id. de Cain et Abel, 1, 3, 11; id. Jac. et Vit. Beat. 2, 6, 28.