The story
- Latin · derived fromplāga“blow, wound”
- Old French · derived fromplage
- Middle English · inherited fromplage
- English todayplague
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.
Words from the same roots
Latinplāga all →
plage
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.