plaie
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old French plaie, from Latin plāga. Cognate with Ancient Greek πληγή (plēgḗ, “wound”). Compare Italian piaga, Spanish llaga, Romanian plagă.
Pronunciation
[edit]Nomen
[edit]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.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “plaie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
[edit]Old French
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Nomen
[edit]plaie oblique singular, f (oblique plural plaies, nominative singular plaie, nominative plural plaies)
- wound (damage to the body)
Descendants
[edit]- French: plaie
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