plage

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

• IPA^(key): /pleɪd͡ʒ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪd͡ʒ

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 […], part 1, 2nd edition, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, OCLC 932920499; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire; London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IV, scene iv:

     TAMBURLAINE. Kings of Argier, Morocco, and of Fez,
     You that have march'd with happy Tamburlaine
     As far as from the frozen plage of heaven
     Unto the watery Morning's ruddy bower, […]

   • 1626, [Samuel] Purchas, “Of the New World”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 5th part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], OCLC 960103045, 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.

• 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 15566697, page 932.
• plage in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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• 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. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of plagen

Borrowed from Latin plagia, Cognate with Catalan platja, Galician praia, Italian spiaggia, Occitan plaja, Portuguese praia, and Spanish playa.

• IPA^(key): /plaʒ/

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• Rhymes: -aʒ

plage f (plural plages)

1. beach
2. (mathematics) range

• plage horaire
• volley-ball de plage

• → Albanian: plazh
• → Belarusian: пляж (pljaž)
• → Bulgarian: плаж (plaž)
• → Czech: pláž
• → English: plage
• → Georgian: პლაჟი (ṗlaži)
• → 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)
  • → Tajik: пляж (plyaž)
  • → Turkmen: plýaž
  • → Uzbek: plyaj
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: плажа

  Latin: plaža

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

• “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
• 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 230972125; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, OCLC 932884868:

     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.