plaga

From Latin plāga.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈpla.ɣə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈpla.ɣa]

plaga f (plural plagues)

1. plague
2. jokester

• “plaga”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “plaga”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “plaga” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “plaga” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpʰlaːɣa/

  Rhymes: -aːɣa

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

1. to bother, plague

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

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

plaga f (plural plaghe)

1. region, district
2. (obsolete) beach

Related to plangō (“to strike”), from *pleh₂k-, *pleh₂g-. Cognate with Ancient Greek πληγή (plēgḗ, “wound”) and Albanian plojë (“slaughter; bloodletting”).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɫaː.ɡa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈplaː.ɡa]

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

First-declension noun.

Borrowings:

From Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“flat, broad, plain”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πλάγος (plágos, “side, flank”), Old High German flah (“flat, smooth”),^[2] Middle Low German vlake (“hurdle, small grid”), Old Norse flaki (“plank, canopy, shed”). More at flake.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɫa.ɡa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈplaː.ɡa]

plaga f (genitive plagae); first declension

2. 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.

First-declension noun.

• ⇒ Late Latin: plagia
  • Corsican: piaghja
  • Dalmatian: plui
  • Italian: piaggia
  • Old French:
    • French: plage (see there for further descendants)
    • Walloon: pladje
  • Old Occitan:
    • Catalan: platja
    • Occitan: plaja
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: praia, praya
    • Galician: praia
    • Portuguese: praia
  • Old Spanish:
    • Spanish: playa
      • ⇒ Cebuano: aplaya
      • → English: playa
      • → Papiamentu: playa
      • ⇒ Tagalog: aplaya
    • → Basque: plaia
  • Sicilian: praja
• → Italian: plaga
• → Portuguese: plaga

From Proto-Indo-European *plek- (“to weave”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πλέκω (plékō, “braid”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɫa.ɡa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈplaː.ɡa]

plaga f (genitive plagae); first declension

1. hunting net, web, trap, snare, rope, gear
   • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.131:

     [...] rētia rāra, plagae, lātō vēnābula ferrō, [...].

     [Young hunters carrying] wide-meshed nets, traps, [and] hunting spears [tipped] with broad blades, [...].
     (The only appearance of this word in Virgil’s poetry. The “rētia rāra” are thin or widely-woven nets; in context, the “plagae” may be understood as stronger nets, snares, traps, or even ropes for securing the “retia.” Translations vary.)

2. bedcurtain, curtain

First-declension noun.

• plagium
• plagiō
• plagula

• “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^[1], 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
    

• plagen (of noun)

(of verb)

• plaget
• plagde (simple past)
• plagd (past participle)

plaga m or f

1. definite feminine singular of plage

plaga

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

plaga f

1. definite singular of plage

Learned borrowing from Latin plāga. Doublet of płacz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ɡa/

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• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Syllabification: pla‧ga

plaga f

1. plague

   Synonym: zaraza

2. nuisance

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈplaɡa/ [ˈpla.ɣ̞a]
• Rhymes: -aɡa
• Syllabification: pla‧ga

Borrowed from Latin plāga. Compare the inherited llaga.

plaga f (plural plagas)

1. plague

   Synonym: peste

2. nuisance

plaga

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

• “plaga”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024