Betekenis (Engels)
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- The bubonic plague, the pestilent disease caused by the virulent bacterium Yersinia pestis.
- An epidemic or pandemic caused by any pestilence, but specifically by the above disease.
- A widespread affliction, calamity or destructive influx, especially when seen as divine retribution.
- A grave nuisance, whatever greatly irritates.
- A group of common grackles.
Sinonieme
black death
temptation by the evil doer
chevvy
epidemic disease
great nuisance
do violence to
gnaw away
malicious person
treat cruelly
odious person
pestilential disease
high mortality
loimia
scourse
get on somebody’s nerves
Frekwensie
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/pleɪɡ/
Etimologie (Engels)
In summary
From Middle English plage, borrowed from Old French plage, from Latin plāga (“blow, wound”), from plangō (“to strike”). Cognate with Middle Dutch plāghe (> Dutch plaag), plāghen (> Dutch plagen); Middle Low German plāge; Middle High German plāge, pflāge (> German Plage); plāgen (> German plagen); Swedish plåga; French plaie, Occitan plaga. Doublet of plaga. Displaced native Old English wōl.
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