different between plage vs plumage

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 Old French plumage (14c.), itself from plume (“feather”) (from Latin pl?ma (“feather, down”), from a Proto-Indo-European base *plews- (“to pluck, a feather, fleece”) + -age.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: plo?om'?j, IPA^(key): /?plu?m?d?/
• (obsolete) enPR: plyo?om'?j, IPA^(key): /?plju?m?d?/
• Rhymes: -u?m?d?

Noun

plumage (countable and uncountable, plural plumages)

1. (ornithology, collective noun) Layer or collection of feathers covering a bird’s body; feathers used ornamentally; feathering.
   • 1969, Monty Python, "Monty Python’s Flying Circus" (Dead Parrot sketch)

     [Owner]: No no he's not dead, he's, he's restin'! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue, idn'it, ay? Beautiful plumage!

     [Mr. Praline]: The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.

   Synonym: (obsolete) pennage

2. Finery or elaborate dress.

Related terms

Translations

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ply.ma?/

Noun

plumage m (plural plumages)

1. (ornithology, collective noun) plumage (a bird's feathers, collectively speaking)

   Synonyms: (falconry) pennage, plumée

Related terms

Further reading

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