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French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French plaie, from Latin plāga. Cognate with Ancient Greek πληγή (plēgḗ, “wound”). Compare Italian piaga, Spanish llaga, Romanian plagă.
Pronunciation
Noun
plaie f (plural plaies)
- open wound
- Synonym: blessure
1845, Alexandre Dumas, chapter 10, in La Reine Margot, volume I:Marguerite, d’une aiguille d’or à la pointe arrondie, sondait les plaies avec toute la délicatesse et l’habileté que maître Ambroise Paré eût pu déployer en pareille circonstance.- Using a golden needle with a rounded tip, Marguerite probed the wounds with all the delicateness and skill that Master Ambroise Paré could have deployed under the same circumstances.
- scourge
1839, François-Vincent Raspail, De la Pologne — Les deux insurrections:Mais quand tout fut fini, les magnats accoururent des quatre coins de la Pologne, en qualité de sauveurs de la patrie. Les sauveurs sont la plaie des révolutions populaires.- But when everything was finished, magnates hurried from the four corners of Poland as saviors of the fatherland. Saviors are the scourge of popular revolutions.
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Old French
Etymology
From Latin plāga.
Noun
plaie oblique singular, f (oblique plural plaies, nominative singular plaie, nominative plural plaies)
- wound (damage to the body)
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