different between plage vs plague

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 Middle English plage, borrowed from Old French plage, from Latin pl?ga (“blow, wound”), from plang? (“to strike”). Cognate with Middle Dutch pl?ghe (> Dutch plaag), pl?ghen (> Dutch plagen); Middle Low German pl?ge; Middle High German pl?ge, pfl?ge (> German Plage); pl?gen (> German plagen); Swedish plåga; French plaie, Occitan plaga. Doublet of plaga. Displaced native Old English w?l.

Pronunciation

• enPR: pl?g, IPA^(key): /ple??/, [p?l?e??]
• Rhymes: -e??

Noun

plague (countable and uncountable, plural plagues)

1. (often used with the, sometimes capitalized: the Plague) The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
2. (pathology) An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
3. A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
4. (figuratively) A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates.

5. Collective noun for common grackles

Synonyms

• pest, pestilence

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

plague (third-person singular simple present plagues, present participle plaguing, simple past and past participle plagued)

1. (transitive) To harass, pester or annoy someone persistently or incessantly.
2. (transitive) To afflict with a disease or other calamity.

Derived terms

• plagued
• plaguer

Translations

Spanish

Verb

plague

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of plagar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of plagar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of plagar.