plaine
English
editAdjective
editplaine (comparative more plaine, superlative most plaine)
- Obsolete spelling of plain.
- 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:
- Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a sufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake Latin.
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editplaine
Noun
editplaine f (plural plaines)
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- “plaine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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editVerb
editplaine
- inflection of plainar:
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editEtymology
editFrom Middle English playn, from Old French plain, from Latin planus.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editplaine
- simple
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 5-6:
- an na plaine garbe o' oure yola talke,
- and in the simple dress of our old dialect,
References
edit- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114
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