plaigne

French

Verb

plaigne

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of plaindre

Anagrams

• épingla

Old French

Etymology

Latin plānum.

Noun

plaigne oblique singular, f (oblique plural plaignes, nominative singular plaigne, nominative plural plaignes)

1. Alternative form of plain (“plain, flat area”)
   • c. 1220, Lancelot du Lac; republished as Heinrich Oskar Sommer, editor, The Vulgate Version of the Arthurian Romances […], volume 3, Le Livre de Lancelot del Lac, Part I, 1910, page 157:

     Lors deschent li rois aual & se herberge en la plaigne desous sor les fontaines qui i sont.

     Then the king descended downstream and took shelter in the plain below, atop the fountains that were there.