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displiceo

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Etymology

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From dis- +‎ placeō.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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displiceō (present infinitive displicēre, perfect active displicuī, supine displicitum); second conjugation

  1. to displease (with dative)
    • 8 CE – 12 CE, Ovid, Sorrows 1.49–50:
      dēnique sēcūrus fāmae, liber, īre mementō,
      nec tibi sit lectō displicuisse pudor.
      Lastly, [my] book, you [must] remember to go untroubled by [my] reputation; nor should you be ashamed, by having been read, to be displeasing.
      (The exiled poet addresses his new book as if it is a living emissary; Ovid's tarnished reputation may color the book’s reception back in Rome.)
  2. to be displeased
    Antonyms: gaudeō, placeō, ovō, grātulor, congrātulor, exhilarō, fruor

Conjugation

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References

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  • displiceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • displiceo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • displiceo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • (ambiguous) to be in a bad temper: sibi displicere (opp. sibi placere)