plage

See also:Plage,plagë,andplåge

English

Etymology

FromFrenchplage,fromLate Latinplagia,fromLatinplaga(“region”)(cognate withEnglishflake).Doubletofplaya.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/pleɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio(Southern England):

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• Rhymes:-eɪdʒ

Noun

plage(pluralplages)

1. (geography,obsolete)Aregionviewed in the context of itsclimate;aclimeorzone.
   • a.1547,Edward Hall,Hall's chronicle,J. Johnson, published1809,page252:

     King Henry and his faction nesteled and strēgthēd him and his alies in the North regions and borealplage.

   • c.1587–1588,[Christopher Marlowe],Tamburlaine the Great.[…]The First Part[…],2nd edition, part 1, London:[…][R. Robinson for]Richard Iones,[…],published1592,→OCLC;reprinted asTamburlaine the Great(A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press,1973,→ISBN,Act IIII, scene iv:

     Tam[burlaine].Kings ofArgier,Morocus,and ofFeſſe,
     You that haue martcht with happieTamburlain,
     As far as from the frozen place^{[sic– meaningplage]}of heauen,
     Unto the watrie mornings ruddy hower^{[sic– meaningbower]}.

   • 1626,[Samuel] Purchas,“Of the New World”, inPurchas His Pilgrimes.[…],5th part, London:[…]William Stansbyfor Henrie Fetherstone,[…],→OCLC,8th book,page792:

     In the Heauens, they supposed a burning Zone; in the Earth, aPlage[translating Latinplaga], plagued with scorching heats.

2. (astronomy)A bright region in thechromosphereof theSun.

See also

• plague

References

• James A. H. Murrayet al.,editors (1884–1928), “Plage”, inA New English Dictionary on Historical Principles(Oxford English Dictionary), volume VII (O–P), London:Clarendon Press,→OCLC,page932.
• “plage”,inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary,Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

Anagrams

• Pagel

Danish

Etymology

FromLow Germanplage,fromLatinplaga(“blow, cut, strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/plaːɡə/,[ˈpʰlæːjə]

Noun

plagec(singular definiteplagen,plural indefiniteplager)

1. nuisance,pest

Inflection

Declension ofplage

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	plage	plagen	plager	plagerne
genitive	plages	plagens	plagers	plagernes

Verb

plage(imperativeplag,infinitiveatplage,present tenseplager,past tenseplagede,perfect tenseharplaget)

1. bully
2. pester
3. worry

Synonyms

• pine

Derived terms

• plageånd
• plagsom

Dutch

Verb

plage

1. (dated or formal)singularpresentsubjunctiveofplagen

French

Etymology

FromMiddle Frenchplage(ca. 1300), borrowed fromMedieval Latinplagia,in part afterItalianpiaggia(modernspiaggia). See the Latin for further cognates.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/plaʒ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes:-aʒ

Noun

plagef(pluralplages)

1. beach
2. (mathematics)range

Derived terms

• Canet Plage
• plage horaire
• volley-ball de plage

Descendants

• →Albanian:plazh
• →Antillean Creole:plaj
• →Belarusian:пляж(pljaž)
• →Bulgarian:плаж(plaž)
• →Czech:pláž
• →English:plage
• →Greek:πλαζ(plaz)
• →Luxembourgish:Plage
• →Macedonian:плажа(plaža)
• →Ottoman Turkish:
  • Turkish:plaj
• →Persian:پلاژ(pelâž)
• →Polish:plaża
• →Romanian:plajă
• →Russian:пляж(pljaž)
  • →Armenian:պլյաժ(plyaž)
  • →Avar:пляж(pljaž)
  • →Georgian:პლაჟი(ṗlaži),პლიაჟი(ṗliaži)—nonstandard
  • →Tajik:пляж(plyaž)
  • →Turkmen:plýaž
  • →Uzbek:plyaj
• →Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script:плажа

  Latin script:plaža

• →Slovak:pláž
• →Slovene:plaža
• →Ukrainian:пляж(pljaž)
• →Yiddish:פּלאַזשע(plazhe)

Further reading

• “plage”,inTrésor de la langue française informatisé[Digitized Treasury of the French Language],2012.

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

plage

1. inflection ofplagen:
   1. first-personsingularpresent
   2. first/third-personsingularsubjunctiveI
   3. singularimperative

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed fromOld Frenchplage,fromLatinplāga(“blow, wound”).

Alternative forms

• plaghe,ploge
• plaga,plagam(Latinate)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):/ˈplaːɡ(ə)/

Noun

plage(pluralplages)

1. plague

Descendants

• English:plague
• Scots:plague
• Yola:plaague,plaauge

References

• “plāge,n.(2).”,inMED Online,Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007.

Etymology 2

Noun

plage

1. (geography)aregion;country
   • 1387–1400,Geoffrey Chaucer,“The Man of Lawes Tale”,inThe Canterbury Tales,[Westminster:William Caxton,published1478],→OCLC;republished in [William Thynne], editor,The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed,[…],[London]:[…][Richard Graftonfor]Iohn Reynes[…],1542,→OCLC:

     The plages of the North

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

FromLatinplaga,viaLow GermanplageandOld Norseplága.

Noun

plageform(definite singularplagaorplagen,indefinite pluralplager,definite pluralplagene)

1. aplague(especially biblical)
2. anaffliction,illness,pain
3. abother,nuisance,pest,worry

Etymology 2

FromOld Norseplága.

Verb

plage(imperativeplag,present tenseplager,passiveplages,simple pastplagaorplagetorplagde,past participleplagaorplagetorplagd,present participleplagende)

1. toafflict,bother,pester,plague,torment,trouble

References

• “plage”inThe Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

FromLatinplaga,viaLow GermanplageandOld Norseplága.

Noun

plagef(definite singularplaga,indefinite pluralplager,definite pluralplagene)

1. aplague(especially biblical)
2. anaffliction,illness,pain
3. abother,nuisance,pest,worry

References

• “plage”inThe Nynorsk Dictionary.