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English
Adjective
plaine (comparative more plaine, superlative most plaine)
- Obsolete spelling of plain
1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a sufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake Latin.
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French
Pronunciation
Adjective
plaine
- feminine singular of plain
Noun
plaine f (plural plaines)
- plain
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Portuguese
Verb
plaine
- inflection of plainar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
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Etymology
From Middle English pleyn, from Old French plain, from Latin planus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
plaine
- simple
1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114, lines 5-6:an na plaine garbe o' oure yola talke,- and in the simple dress of our old dialect,
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114