plaga

Borrowed from Latin plaga (“a blow, a welt, a stripe”). Doublet of plague.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpleɪɡə/

plaga (plural plagae)

1. (zoology) A stripe of colour.

• plagate
• plagose

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin plāga.

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ɡə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ɡa/

plaga f (plural plagues)

1. plague
2. jokester

• “plaga” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “plaga”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “plaga” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “plaga” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰlaːɣa/

  Rhymes: -aːɣa

plaga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative plagaði, supine plagað)

1. to bother, plague

Borrowed from Latin plaga (“tract, region, quarter, zone”). Compare piaggia.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ɡa/
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Hyphenation: plà‧ga

plaga f (plural plaghe)

1. region, district
2. (obsolete) beach

Related to plangō (“to strike”), from *pleh₂k-, *pleh₂g-. Cognate with Ancient Greek πληγή (plēgḗ, “wound”) and Albanian plojë (“slaughter; bloodletting”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈplaː.ɡa/, [ˈpɫ̪äːɡä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ɡa/, [ˈpläːɡä]

plāga f (genitive plāgae); first declension

1. plague, misfortune

   Synonyms: malum, cruciātus, nūbēs, miseria, īnfortūnium, calamitās, cāsus, vulnus

2. stroke, blow, cut, strike

   Synonyms: ictus, vulnus, colaphus, pulsus

3. wound, gash, injury

   Synonyms: vulnus, noxa, incommoditās, damnum

First-declension noun.

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: pleagã, plaghe
  • Romanian: plagă
• Italian: piaga
• Old French: plaie, pleie
  • French: plaie
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: plaga
  • Occitan: plaga
• Old Portuguese: chaga
  • Galician: chaga
  • Portuguese: chaga
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: llaga
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: plae
  • Romansch: plaja, plaga, plaia, pleja
• Sardinian: tzaca
• Sicilian: chiaga
• → Albanian: plagë
• → Middle Dutch: plāghe
  • Dutch: plaag
• → Middle High German: plāge, pflāge
  • German: Plage
• → Middle Low German: plage
  • → Danish: plage
  • → Norwegian: plage
• → Old Dutch: plāgon
  • Middle Dutch: plâgen
    • Dutch: plagen
    • Limburgish: plaoge
• → Old French: plage
  • → Middle English: plage
    • English: plague
      • → Scottish Gaelic: plàigh
    • Scots: plague
• → Old Norse: plága
  • Danish: plage
  • Icelandic: plága
  • Norwegian: plage
  • Swedish: plåga
• → Old Portuguese: praga, plaga
  • Portuguese: praga
• → Polish: plaga
• → Spanish: plaga
• → Welsh: pla

From Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πλάγος (plágos, “side, flank”), Old High German flah (“flat, smooth”), Middle Low German vlake (“hurdle, small grid”), Old Norse flaki (“plank, canopy, shed”). More at flake.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ɡa/, [ˈpɫ̪äɡä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ɡa/, [ˈpläːɡä]

plaga f (genitive plagae); first declension

1. tract, region, quarter, zone
   • (Can we date this quote?) Attributed to Ennius by Cicero in De divinatione, Book II, Chapter XIII

     Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat, caeli scrutantur plagas.

     What is before the feet, noone regards; the skies are searched in the regions.

First-declension noun.

• ⇒ Late Latin: plagia
  • Dalmatian: plui
  • Italian: piaggia, plaga
  • Old French:
    • French: plage (see there for further descendants)
    • Walloon: pladje
  • Old Occitan:
    • Catalan: platja
    • Occitan: plaja
  • Old Portuguese: praya
    • Galician: praia
    • Portuguese: praia
  • Sicilian: praja
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: playa
    • → Basque: plaia
• → Italian: plaga
• → Portuguese: plaga

From Proto-Indo-European *plek- (“weave”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πλέκω (plékō, “braid”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ɡa/, [ˈpɫ̪äɡä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ɡa/, [ˈpläːɡä]

plaga f (genitive plagae); first declension

1. hunting net, web, trap
2. bedcurtain, curtain

First-declension noun.

• plagium
• plagiō
• plagula

• “plaga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• plaga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to inflict a death-blow: plagam extremam or mortiferam infligere
    
  • to inflict a mortal wound on some one: mortiferam plagam alicui infligere
    

• (of noun) plagen

(of verb)

• plaget
• plagde (simple past)
• plagd (past participle)

plaga m or f

1. definite feminine singular of plage

plaga

1. inflection of plage:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

plaga f

1. definite singular of plage

Borrowed from Latin plāga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ɡa/

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• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Syllabification: pla‧ga

plaga f

1. plague

   Synonym: zaraza

2. nuisance

• plaga in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• plaga in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Latin plāga. Compare the inherited llaga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈplaɡa/ [ˈpla.ɣ̞a]
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Syllabification: pla‧ga

plaga f (plural plagas)

1. plague

   Synonym: peste

2. nuisance

• plagar
• plagado
• plaguicida

plaga

1. inflection of plagar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “plaga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014