different between plage vs pelage

English

Etymology

From French plage, from Latin plaga. Doublet of flake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ple?d?/

Pronunciation

Noun

plage (plural plages)

1. (geography, obsolete) a region; country

   • The plages of the north.

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

Anagrams

• Pagel

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla???/, [?p?læ?j?]

Noun

plage c (singular definite plagen, plural indefinite plager)

1. nuisance, pest

Inflection

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. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of plagen

French

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pla?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Noun

plage f (plural plages)

1. beach
2. (mathematics) range

Derived terms

• volley-ball de plage

Descendants

• ? Albanian: plazh
• ? Belarusian: ???? (pljaž)
• ? Bulgarian: ???? (plaž)
• ? Czech: pláž
• ? English: plage
• ? Georgian: ????? (?laži)
• ? Luxembourgish: Plage
• ? Macedonian: ????? (plaža)
• ? Ottoman Turkish:
  • Turkish: plaj
• ? Polish: pla?a
• ? Romanian: plaj?
• ? Russian: ???? (pljaž)
  • ? Armenian: ????? (plyaž)
  • ? Avar: ???? (pljaž)
  • ? Tajik: ???? (plyaž)
  • ? Turkmen: plýaž
  • ? Uzbek: plyaj
• ? Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ?????

  Latin: plaža

• ? Slovak: pláž
• ? Slovene: plaža
• ? Ukrainian: ???? (pljaž)
• ? Yiddish: ????????? (plazhe)

Further reading

• “plage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Alternative forms

• plaghe, ploge
• plaga, plagam (Latinate)

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French plage.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pla??(?)/

Noun

plage (plural plages)

1. plague

Descendants

• English: plague
• Yola: plaague

References

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

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.

English

Etymology

From French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?l?d??/

Noun

pelage (plural pelages)

1. fur, or any other form of the coat of a mammal

Anagrams

• Lapège, Lepage, peagle

French

Etymology

From poil +? -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.la?/

Noun

pelage m (plural pelages)

1. fur

Synonyms

• (fur): fourrure

See also

• toison

Further reading

• “pelage” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Noun

pelag?

1. nominative plural of pelagus
2. accusative plural of pelagus
3. vocative plural of pelagus

References

• pelage in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pelage in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette