plaie
French edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old French plaie, from Latin plāga. Cognate with Ancient Greek πληγή (plēgḗ, “wound”). Compare Italian piaga, Spanish llaga, Romanian plagă.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
plaie f (plural plaies)
- open wound
- Synonym: blessure
- 1845, Alexandre Dumas, chapter 10, in La Reine Margot, volume I:
- Marguerite, d’une aiguille d’or à la pointe arrondie, sondait les plaies avec toute la délicatesse et l’habileté que maître Ambroise Paré eût pu déployer en pareille circonstance.
- Using a golden needle with a rounded tip, Marguerite probed the wounds with all the delicateness and skill that Master Ambroise Paré could have deployed under the same circumstances.
- scourge
- 1839, François-Vincent Raspail, De la Pologne — Les deux insurrections:
- Mais quand tout fut fini, les magnats accoururent des quatre coins de la Pologne, en qualité de sauveurs de la patrie. Les sauveurs sont la plaie des révolutions populaires.
- But when everything was finished, magnates hurried from the four corners of Poland as saviors of the fatherland. Saviors are the scourge of popular revolutions.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “plaie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
plaie oblique singular, f (oblique plural plaies, nominative singular plaie, nominative plural plaies)
- wound (damage to the body)
Descendants edit
- French: plaie
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