plage

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

• IPA^(key): /pleɪd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

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.

• plague

• 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.

• Pagel

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

• IPA^(key): /plaːɡə/, [ˈpʰlæːjə]

plage c (singular definite plagen, plural indefinite plager)

1. nuisance, pest

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

1. bully
2. pester
3. worry

• pine

• plageånd
• plagsom

plage

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

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

• IPA^(key): /plaʒ/

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• Rhymes: -aʒ

plage f (plural plages)

1. beach
2. (mathematics) range

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

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plage

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

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

• plaghe, ploge
• plaga, plagam (Latinate)

• IPA^(key): /ˈplaːɡ(ə)/

plage (plural plages)

1. plague

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

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

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

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

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

From Old Norse plága.

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

• “plage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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

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

• “plage” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.