# plage
## English
### Etymology

From French plage, from Late Latin plagia, from Latin plaga (“region”) (cognate with English flake). Doublet of playa.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /pleɪd͡ʒ/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪdʒ

### Noun

plage (plural plages)
* (geography, obsolete) A region viewed in the context of its climate; a clime or zone.
** a. 1547, Edward Hall, Hall's chronicle, J. Johnson, published 1809, page 252:King Henry and his faction nesteled and strēgthēd him and his alies in the North regions and boreal plage.
** c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act IIII, scene iv:Tam[burlaine]. Kings of Argier, Morocus, and of Feſſe, You that haue martcht with happie Tamburlain, As far as from the frozen place of heauen, Unto the watrie mornings ruddy hower.
** 1626, [Samuel] Purchas, “Of the New World”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 5th part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 8th book, page 792:In the Heauens, they supposed a burning Zone; in the Earth, a Plage [translating Latin plaga], plagued with scorching heats.
* (astronomy) A bright region in the chromosphere of the Sun.

### See also

* plague

### References

* James A. H. Murray et al., editors (1884–1928), “Plage”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume VII (O–P), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 932.
* “plage”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* Pagel

## Danish
### Etymology

From Low German plage, from Latin plaga (“blow, cut, strike”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plaːɡə/, [ˈpʰlæːjə]

### Noun

plage c (singular definite plagen, plural indefinite plager)
* nuisance, pest

#### Inflection
### Verb

plage (imperative plag, infinitive at plage, present tense plager, past tense plagede, perfect tense har plaget)
* bully
* pester
* worry

#### Synonyms

* pine

#### Derived terms

* plageånd
* plagsom

## Dutch
### Verb

plage
* (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of plagen

## French
### Etymology

From Middle French plage (ca. 1300), borrowed from Medieval Latin plagia, in part after Italian piaggia (modern spiaggia). See the Latin for further cognates.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /plaʒ/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -aʒ

### Noun

plage f (plural plages)
* beach
* (mathematics) range

#### Derived terms

* Canet Plage
* plage horaire
* volley-ball de plage

#### Descendants

* → Albanian: plazh
* → Armenian: փլաժ (pʻlaž)
* → Antillean Creole: plaj
* → Belarusian: пляж (pljaž)
* → Bulgarian: плаж (plaž)
* → Czech: pláž
* → English: plage
* → Greek: πλαζ (plaz)
* → Luxembourgish: Plage
* → Macedonian: плажа (plaža)
* → Ottoman Turkish:
** Turkish: plaj
* → Persian: پلاژ (pelâž)
* → Polish: plaża
* → Romanian: plajă
* → Russian: пляж (pljaž)
** → Armenian: պլյաժ (plyaž)
** → Avar: пляж (pljaž)
** → Georgian: პლაჟი (ṗlaži), პლიაჟი (ṗliaži) — nonstandard
** → Tajik: пляж (plyaž)
** → Turkmen: plýaž
** → Uzbek: plyaj
* → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic script: плажа
    Latin script: plaža
* → Slovak: pláž
* → Slovene: plaža
* → Ukrainian: пляж (pljaž)
* → Yiddish: פּלאַזשע (plazhe)

### Further reading

* “plage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## German
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

plage
* inflection of plagen:
** first-person singular present
** first/third-person singular subjunctive I
** singular imperative

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

Borrowed from Old French plage, from Latin plāga (“blow, wound”).

#### Alternative forms

* plaghe, ploge
* plaga, plagam (Latinate)

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈplaːɡ(ə)/

#### Noun

plage (plural plages)
* plague

##### Descendants

* English: plague
* Scots: plague
* Yola: plaague, plaauge

##### References

* “plāge, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

plage
* (geography) a region; country
** 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Man of Lawes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:The plages of the North(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology 1

From Latin plaga, via Low German plage and Old Norse plága.

#### Noun

plage f or m (definite singular plaga or plagen, indefinite plural plager, definite plural plagene)
* a plague (especially biblical)
* an affliction, illness, pain
* a bother, nuisance, pest, worry

### Etymology 2

From Old Norse plága.

#### Verb

plage (imperative plag, present tense plager, passive plages, simple past plaga or plaget or plagde, past participle plaga or plaget or plagd, present participle plagende)
* to afflict, bother, pester, plague, torment, trouble

### References

* “plage” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Latin plaga, via Low German plage and Old Norse plága.

### Noun

plage f (definite singular plaga, indefinite plural plager, definite plural plagene)
* a plague (especially biblical)
* an affliction, illness, pain
* a bother, nuisance, pest, worry

### References

* “plage” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.