Talk:playa
Latest comment: 13 years ago by 4pq1injbok in topic Romance 'beach': playa, praia, &c
The etymologies for Spanish playa and Portuguese praia trace them to Latin plag(i)a. I can't find a noun plagia. There are several plaga, and I suppose what's being invoked is our sense 5, Lewis & Short's plaga2; but L&S call it "mostly poet.". Can anyone back this etymology up?
Le Trésor de la Langue Française Informatisé says re plage 'beach' that it's < Italian < Greek, though confounded with another plage reborrowed from Lat plaga. Borrowing ultimately from Italian feels likelier to me for the other Romance languages as well. 4pq1injbok 01:02, 22 January 2011 (UTC)