plaga

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See also: plága, plagá, plagă, and plåga

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plaga (a blow, a welt, a stripe). Doublet of plague.

Pronunciation

Noun

plaga (plural plagae)

  1. (zoology) A stripe of colour.

Related terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “plaga”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Occitan , from Latin plāga.

Pronunciation

Noun

plaga f (plural plagues)

  1. plague
  2. jokester

Further reading

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Verb

plaga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative plagaði, supine plagað)

  1. to bother, plague

Conjugation

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plaga (tract, region, quarter, zone). Compare piaggia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpla.ɡa/
  • Rhymes: -aɡa
  • Hyphenation: plà‧ga

Noun

plaga f (plural plaghe)

  1. region, district
  2. (obsolete) beach

Latin

Etymology 1

Related to plangō (to strike), from *pleh₂k-, *pleh₂g-. Cognate with Ancient Greek πληγή (plēgḗ, wound) and Albanian plojë (slaughter; bloodletting).

Pronunciation

Noun

plāga f (genitive plāgae); first declension

  1. plague, misfortune
    Synonyms: malum, cruciātus, nūbēs, miseria, īnfortūnium, calamitās, cāsus, vulnus
  2. stroke, blow, cut, strike
    Synonyms: ictus, vulnus, colaphus, pulsus
  3. wound, gash, injury
    Synonyms: vulnus, noxa, incommoditās, damnum
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative plāga plāgae
Genitive plāgae plāgārum
Dative plāgae plāgīs
Accusative plāgam plāgās
Ablative plāgā plāgīs
Vocative plāga plāgae
Descendants
  • Eastern Romance:
    • Aromanian: pleagã, plaghe
    • Romanian: plagă
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: chaga
      • Galician: chaga
      • Portuguese: chaga (see there for further descendants)
    • Spanish: llaga
  • Italo-Romance:
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Insular Romance:
Borrowings

Etymology 2

From Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (flat, broad, plain). Cognate with Ancient Greek πλάγος (plágos, side, flank), Old High German flah (flat, smooth), Middle Low German vlake (hurdle, small grid), Old Norse flaki (plank, canopy, shed). More at flake.

Pronunciation

Noun

plaga f (genitive plagae); first declension

  1. tract, region, quarter, zone
    • (Can we date this quote?) Attributed to Ennius by Cicero in De divinatione, Book II, Chapter XIII
      Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat, caeli scrutantur plagas.
      What is before the feet, noone regards; the skies are searched in the regions.
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative plaga plagae
Genitive plagae plagārum
Dative plagae plagīs
Accusative plagam plagās
Ablative plagā plagīs
Vocative plaga plagae
Descendants

Etymology 3

From Proto-Indo-European *plek- (weave). Cognate with Ancient Greek πλέκω (plékō, braid).

Pronunciation

Noun

plaga f (genitive plagae); first declension

  1. hunting net, web, trap
  2. bedcurtain, curtain
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative plaga plagae
Genitive plagae plagārum
Dative plagae plagīs
Accusative plagam plagās
Ablative plagā plagīs
Vocative plaga plagae
Derived terms

References

  • plaga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • plaga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to inflict a death-blow: plagam extremam or mortiferam infligere
    • to inflict a mortal wound on some one: mortiferam plagam alicui infligere
  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “plangō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 469-70
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 469

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

(of verb)

Noun

plaga m or f

  1. definite feminine singular of plage

Verb

plaga

  1. inflection of plage:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

plaga f

  1. definite singular of plage

Polish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin plāga. Doublet of płacz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpla.ɡa/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -aɡa
  • Syllabification: pla‧ga

Noun

plaga f

  1. plague
    Synonym: zaraza
  2. nuisance

Declension

Further reading

  • plaga in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • plaga in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈplaɡa/
  • Rhymes: -aɡa
  • Syllabification: pla‧ga

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin plāga. Compare the inherited llaga.

Noun

plaga f (plural plagas)

  1. plague
    Synonym: peste
  2. nuisance
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

Verb

plaga

  1. inflection of plagar:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading