Meaning

verb give pleasure to or be pleasing to

verb be the will of or have the will (to)

verb give satisfaction

originFrom Middle English plesen, plaisen, borrowed from Old French plaise, conjugated form of plaisir or plaire, from Latin placeō (“to please, to seem good”), from the Proto-Indo-European *pleHk- (“pleasingness, permission”). In this sense, displaced native Old English līcian, whence Modern English like.

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