placebo

See also: Placebo

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /pləˈsiːbəʊ/
  • (US) IPA(key): /pləˈsiboʊ/
  • Rhymes: -iːbəʊ

Noun

placebo (plural placebos or placeboes)

  1. (medicine) A dummy medicine containing no active ingredients; an inert treatment. [from 18th c.]
    • 2010, Edzard Ernst, The Guardian, 22 Feb 2010:
      The acid test, I thought, was whether homeopathic remedies behave differently from placebos when submitted to clinical trials.
  2. (Roman Catholicism) The vespers sung in the office for the dead. [from 13th c.]
    • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 349:
      There the placebo, the office for the dead, was sung, and a vigil kept throughout the night.

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin placēbō.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

placebo m (plural placebo's)

  1. placebo
  2. (obsolete) sycophant

Derived terms

  • het placebo zingen
  • placebo spelen

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin placēbō.

Noun

placebo m (plural placebos)

  1. placebo

Further reading


Interlingua

Noun

placebo (plural placebos)

  1. placebo

Italian

Etymology

From Latin

Noun

placebo m (invariable)

  1. (pharmacology, figuratively) placebo

Derived terms


Latin

Verb

placēbō

  1. first-person singular future active indicative of placeō

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /pla.ˈse.bu/
  • Hyphenation: pla‧ce‧bo

Noun

placebo m (plural placebos)

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

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin

Noun

placebo m (plural placebos)

  1. placebo
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