See also: Plage, plagë, and plåge

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

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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.

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Danish

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

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  • IPA(key): /plaːɡə/, [ˈpʰlæːjə]

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plage c (singular definite plagen, plural indefinite plager)

  1. nuisance, pest

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

  1. bully
  2. pester
  3. worry

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Dutch

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plage

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

French

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 plage on French Wikipedia

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

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plage f (plural plages)

  1. beach
  2. (mathematics) range

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plage

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

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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

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plage (plural plages)

  1. plague
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plage

  1. (geography) a region; country

Norwegian Bokmål

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Etymology 1

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

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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

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From Old Norse plága.

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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

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

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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

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