plage

See also: Plage, plagë, and plåge

English

Etymology

From French plage, from Late Latin plagia from plaga (“region”). Doublet of flake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pleɪd͡ʒ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

Noun

plage (plural plages)

1. (geography, obsolete) A region viewed in the context of its climate; a clime or zone.
   • a. 1547, Edward Hall, Hall's chronicle, J. Johnson, published 1809, page 252:

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

   • c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene iv:

     Tam[burlaine]. Kings of Argier, Morocus, and of Feſſe,
     You that haue martcht with happie Tamburlain,
     As far as from the frozen place ^{[sic – meaning plage]} of heauen,
     Unto the watrie mornings ruddy hower ^{[sic – meaning bower]}.

   • 1626, [Samuel] Purchas, “Of the New World”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 5th part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 8th book, page 792:

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

2. (astronomy) A bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun.

See also

• plague

References

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Plage”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 932.
• “plage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Pagel

Danish

Etymology

From Low German plage, from Latin plaga (“blow, cut, strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plaːɡə/, [ˈpʰlæːjə]

Noun

plage c (singular definite plagen, plural indefinite plager)

1. nuisance, pest

Inflection

Declension of plage

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

Verb

plage (imperative plag, infinitive at plage, present tense plager, past tense plagede, perfect tense har plaget)

1. bully
2. pester
3. worry

Synonyms

• pine

Derived terms

• plageånd
• plagsom

Dutch

Verb

plage

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of plagen

French

Etymology

From Middle French plage (ca. 1300), borrowed from Medieval Latin plagia, in part after Italian piaggia (modern spiaggia). See the Latin for further cognates.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plaʒ/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -aʒ

Noun

plage f (plural plages)

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”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Pronunciation

• Audio:

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Verb

plage

1. inflection of plagen:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

Middle English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French plage, from Latin plāga (“blow, wound”).

Alternative forms

• plaghe, ploge
• plaga, plagam (Latinate)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplaːɡ(ə)/

Noun

plage (plural plages)

1. plague

Descendants

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

References

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

Etymology 2

Noun

plage

1. (geography) a region; country
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Man of Lawes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     The plages of the North

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Latin plaga, via Low German plage and Old Norse plága.

Noun

plage f or m (definite singular plaga or plagen, indefinite plural plager, definite plural plagene)

1. a plague (especially biblical)
2. an affliction, illness, pain
3. a bother, nuisance, pest, worry

Etymology 2

From Old Norse plága.

Verb

plage (imperative plag, present tense plager, passive plages, simple past plaga or plaget or plagde, past participle plaga or plaget or plagd, present participle plagende)

1. to afflict, bother, pester, plague, torment, trouble

References

• “plage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Latin plaga, via Low German plage and Old Norse plága.

Noun

plage f (definite singular plaga, indefinite plural plager, definite plural plagene)

1. a plague (especially biblical)
2. an affliction, illness, pain
3. a bother, nuisance, pest, worry

References

• “plage” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.