different between plague vs sickness

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.

English

Etymology

From Old English s?ocnes. Synchronically analyzable as sick +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?kn?s/
• Hyphenation: sick?ness

Noun

sickness (usually uncountable, plural sicknesses)

1. The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness.

   I do lament the sickness of the king. -William Shakespeare

   Trust not too much your now resistless charms; Those, age or sickness soon or late disarms. -Alexander Pope.

   Sickness is a dangerous indulgence at my time of life. -Jane Austen.

2. Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.
3. (linguistics) The analogical misuse of a rarer or marked grammatical case in the place of a more common or unmarked case.
   • 1997. Michael B. Smith. Quirky Case in Icelandic, § 4.7

     We can now return to the question of how we treat the phenomenon of dative sickness (the possibility of substituting dative in place of accusative on the experiencer nominal) in Icelandic.

Synonyms

• (quality or state of being sick): disease, illness, infirmity, malady

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References

• sickness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.