Etymology

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Today it means: Giving pleasure; pleasing in manner. Full definition →

Middle English plesaunte ← Old French plaisant
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromplaisant
  2. Middle English · inherited fromplesaunte
  3. English todaypleasant

From Middle English plesaunte, from Old French plaisant. By surface analysis, please + -ant. Related to Dutch plezant (“full of fun or pleasure”). Partly displaced Old English wynsum, which became Modern English winsome.

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