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Italian
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Medieval Latin plagia, from Latin plaga, whence also French plage, Spanish playa, Romanian plai.
Noun
piaggia f (plural piagge) (archaic)
- stretch of sloping terrain, slope
mid 1300s–mid 1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 28–30; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:Poi ch’èi posato un poco il corpo lasso,
ripresi via per la piaggia diserta,
sì che ’l piè fermo sempre era ’l più basso.- After I had rested my weary body a little, I resumed the way on the desert slope, such that the lower foot was always the firm one.
- stretch of flat terrain interrupting a slope
- Alternative form of spiaggia
Derived terms
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
piaggia
- inflection of piaggiare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Further reading
- piaggia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana