plage
English edit
Etymology edit
From French plage, from Late Latin plagia from plaga (“region”). Doublet of flake.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
plage (plural plages)
- (geography, obsolete) A region viewed in the context of its climate; a clime or zone.
- a. 1547, Edward Hall, Hall's chronicle, J. Johnson, published 1809, page 252:
- King Henry and his faction nesteled and strēgthēd him and his alies in the North regions and boreal plage.
- c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene iv:
- 1626, [Samuel] Purchas, “Of the New World”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 5th part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 8th book, page 792:
- In the Heauens, they supposed a burning Zone; in the Earth, a Plage [translating Latin plaga], plagued with scorching heats.
- (astronomy) A bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun.
See also edit
References edit
- James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Plage”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volumes VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 932.
- “plage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Low German plage, from Latin plaga (“blow, cut, strike”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
plage c (singular definite plagen, plural indefinite plager)
Inflection edit
Verb edit
plage (imperative plag, infinitive at plage, present tense plager, past tense plagede, perfect tense har plaget)
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Dutch edit
Verb edit
plage
French edit
Etymology edit
From Middle French plage (ca. 1300), borrowed from Medieval Latin plagia, in part after Italian piaggia (modern spiaggia). See the Latin for further cognates.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
plage f (plural plages)
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Descendants edit
- → Albanian: plazh
- → Antillean Creole: plaj
- → Belarusian: пляж (pljaž)
- → Bulgarian: плаж (plaž)
- → Czech: pláž
- → English: plage
- → Georgian: პლაჟი (ṗlaži)
- → Greek: πλαζ (plaz)
- → Luxembourgish: Plage
- → Macedonian: плажа (plaža)
- → Ottoman Turkish:
- Turkish: plaj
- → Persian: پلاژ (pelâž)
- → Polish: plaża
- → Romanian: plajă
- → Russian: пляж (pljaž)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- → Slovak: pláž
- → Slovene: plaža
- → Ukrainian: пляж (pljaž)
- → Yiddish: פּלאַזשע (plazhe)
Further reading edit
- “plage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Audio (file)
Verb edit
plage
- inflection of plagen:
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Old French plage, from Latin plāga (“blow, wound”).
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
plage (plural plages)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “plāge, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
plage
- (geography) a region; country
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Man of Lawes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- The plages of the North
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Latin plaga, via Low German plage and Old Norse plága.
Noun edit
plage f or m (definite singular plaga or plagen, indefinite plural plager, definite plural plagene)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
plage (imperative plag, present tense plager, passive plages, simple past plaga or plaget or plagde, past participle plaga or plaget or plagd, present participle plagende)
References edit
- “plage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology edit
From Latin plaga, via Low German plage and Old Norse plága.
Noun edit
plage f (definite singular plaga, indefinite plural plager, definite plural plagene)
References edit
- “plage” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.