Translation
favour, act of kindness; obligingness, willingness to oblige
Word origin
From French complaisance and its verb complaire, on Latin complacere ('to please greatly'), from com- ('thoroughly') and placere ('to please'). Esperanto took the whole French word as the single root komplez-.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- complacere
- English cognates
- complaisance, complacent, placid
Examples
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Would you do me a favour?
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He helped me purely out of kindness.
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I thank you for the favour.
Two false seams sit on this one. It is not the Esperanto prefix kom- on a root plezo, because there is no such prefix and no such root; the com- was already welded on in Latin before anyone borrowed the word. Nor is it built from (pleasure), though the two do share Latin placere a long way back, which is a shared ancestor rather than a derivation you can run in either direction. Treat - as one indivisible root. is to do somebody a favour, and a describes the obliging sort who keeps doing them.
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