plaga

Borrowed from Latin plaga (“a blow, a welt, a stripe”).

plaga (plural plagae)

1. (zoology) A stripe of colour.

• plagate
• plagose

• 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.

plaga f (plural plaghe)

1. region, district
2. (obsolete) beach

From plango (“strike”), from *pleḱ-. Cognate with Ancient Greek πληγή (plēgḗ, “wound”). Also dubiously cognate or influenced by *pleh₂-.

plāga f (genitive plāgae); first declension

1. plague, misfortune
2. stroke, blow, cut
3. wound, gash, injury

First declension.

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: pleagã
  • Romanian: plagă
• Italian: piaga
• Old French: plaie, pleie
  • French: plaie
• Polish: plaga
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: plaga
  • Occitan: plaga
• Old Portuguese: chaga
  • Galician: chaga
  • Portuguese: chaga
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: llaga
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Friulian: plae
  • Romansch: plaja, plaga, plaia, pleja
• → Albanian: plagë
• → Middle Dutch: plāghe
  • Dutch: plaag
• → Middle High German: plāge, pflāge
  • German: Plage
• → Middle Low German: plage
  • → Danish: plage
  • → Norwegian: plage
• → Old Dutch: plāgon
  • Middle Dutch: plâgen
    • Dutch: plagen
    • Limburgish: plaoge
• → Old French: plage
  • → Middle English: plage
    • English: plague
      • → Scottish Gaelic: plàigh
    • Scots: plague
• → Old Norse: plága
  • Danish: plage
  • Icelandic: plága
  • Norwegian: plage
  • Swedish: plåga
• → Old Portuguese: praga, plaga
  • Portuguese: praga
• → Spanish: plaga

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.

plaga f (genitive plagae); first declension

1. tract, region, quarter, zone
   • 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.

• Dalmatian: plui
• Italian: piaggia, spiaggia, plaga
• Old French:
  • French: plage (see there for further descendants)
  • Walloon: pladje
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: platja
  • Occitan: plaja
• Old Portuguese: praya
  • Galician: praia
  • Portuguese: praia
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: playa
  • → Basque: plaia
• Romanian: plajă
• → Italian: plaga
• → Portuguese: plaga

From Proto-Indo-European *plek- (“weave”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πλέκτω (pléktō, “braid”)

plaga f (genitive plagae); first declension

1. hunting net, web, trap

First declension.

• plagium
• plagiō

• 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
    

• (of noun) plagen

(of verb)

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

plaga m or f

1. definite feminine singular of plage

plaga

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

plaga f

1. definite singular of plage

Borrowed from Latin plaga.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpla.ɡa/

plaga f

1. plague
2. nuisance

• zaraza

• plaga in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Borrowed from Latin plāga. Compare the inherited llaga.

plaga f (plural plagas)

1. plague
2. nuisance
3. (Venezuela) mosquito

• plagar
• plagado
• plaguicida

plaga

1. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of plagar.
2. Formal second-person singular (usted) present indicative form of plagar.
3. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of plagar.