different between plagued vs both

English

Verb

plagued

1. simple past tense and past participle of plague

Adjective

plagued (comparative more plagued, superlative most plagued)

1. Constantly afflicted or relentlessly attacked (by someone or something).

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• bothe (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English bothe, boþe, from Old English b? þ? (“both the; both those”) and Old Norse báðir, from Proto-Germanic *bai. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bee (“both”), West Frisian beide (“both”), Dutch beide (“both”), German beide (“both”), Swedish både, båda, Danish både, Norwegian både, Icelandic báðir. Replaced Middle English b? from a form of Old English b??en.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: b?th, IPA^(key): /b???/
• (General American) enPR: b?th, IPA^(key): /bo??/
• (nonstandard US) enPR: b?lth, IPA^(key): /bo?l?/
• (Philadelphia), IPA^(key): [b????]
• Rhymes: -???

Determiner

both

1. Each of the two; one and the other; referring to two individuals or items.
   • 1717, Viscount Bolingbroke, Reflexions upon Exile

     He will not bear the loss of his rank, because he can bear the loss of his estate; but he will bear both, because he is prepared for both.

Usage notes

This word does not come between a possessive and its head noun. Say both of my hands or both my hands, not *my both hands. Say, both the king's horses, not *the king's both horses.

Derived terms

Translations

Pronoun

both

1. Each of the two, or of the two kinds.

Conjunction

both

1. Including both of (used with and).

   Both you and I are students.

   • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.

2. (obsolete) Including all of (used with and).

   • Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound.

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

     He prayeth well who loveth well both man and bird and beast.

   • 1892, Richard Congreve, Essays Political, Social, and Religious (volume 2, page 615)

     […] as he appreciates its beauty and its rich gifts, as he regards it with venerant love, fed by both his intellectual powers, his contemplation, and his meditation.

Translations

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:both.

See also

Anagrams

• OTH-B

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish both (“hut, bothy, cot; cabin”), from Proto-Celtic *but? (compare Middle Welsh bot (“dwelling”)), from Proto-Indo-European *b?uH- (“to be”). Related to English booth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??h/, /b??/

Noun

both f (genitive singular botha, nominative plural bothanna or botha)

1. Booth, hut.

Declension

Alternative declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "both" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “both” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 both”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old Norse búð.

Noun

both (plural boths)

1. Alternative form of bothe (“booth”)

Etymology 2

Old English b? þ?; influenced by Old Norse báðir.

Determiner

both

1. Alternative form of bothe (“both”)

Conjunction

both

1. Alternative form of bothe (“both”)

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo?/

Noun

both f (genitive buithe)

1. Alternative form of buid

Inflection

Verb

·both

1. preterite passive conjunct of at·tá