licet

From Proto-Indo-European *leyk- (“to prepare for sale”), with no certain cognates outside of Italic. Cognate with liceor, liceō, Oscan [script needed] (líkítud, “it is permitted”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.ket/, [ˈlʲɪkɛt̪]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈli.t͡ʃet/, [ˈliːt͡ʃet̪]

licet (present infinitive licēre, perfect active licuit or licitum est, future participle licitūrus); second conjugation, no passive

1. (with dative) to be allowed; to be permitted

   Licetne pauca?

   May I speak a word with you?

   (literally, “Are a few [words] permitted?”)

   Quod licet Iovī, nōn licet bovī

   Gods may do what cattle may not

   (literally, “What is permissible for Jupiter is not permissible for an ox”)

   • 43 BCE – c. 17 CE, Ovid, Amores 3.4:

     Cui peccare licet, peccat minus.

     To whom it is allowed to sin, sins less.

2. (impersonal, with subjunctive or, post-classically, indicative) although, even if
   • Juvenal, Saturae 1.105:

     licet ipse negam

     even if I were to deny it

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• licēns
• licitus
• īlicet
• scīlicet
• vidēlicet

• Franco-Provençal: lêsir
• Old French: loisir, leisir, licence
  • French: loisir, loisible
  • Angevin: laisir, laisible
  • Gallo: laisir, laisible
  • Norman: leisir, leisible
    • → English: leisure, license
  • → Old Galician-Portuguese: lezer
    • Galician: lecer
    • Portuguese: lazer
• Old Irish: liced, ced
  • Irish: cead

• “licet”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “licet”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• licet in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • this much I can vouch for: illud pro certo affirmare licet
    
  • allow me to say: pace tua dixerim or dicere liceat
    
  • I have no objection: per me licet
    
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “licet”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 340
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 669