Translation
plague, scourge; affliction
Word origin
From Latin plaga, a blow or a wound, which came to mean a calamity sent as punishment. English plague and Spanish plaga are the same word.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- plaga
- English cognates
- plague
Examples
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The war was a scourge for the whole country.
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Insects attacked the fields like a plague.
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That noise is a real affliction for the neighbours.
A is a large, lasting disaster falling on a whole population: the ten
plagues of Egypt, a famine, a war, a swarm of locusts. It shades downward into
ordinary exasperation as well, so a leaking roof or a noisy neighbour can be a
in the same half-joking way English calls something a plague.
It is not the disease. Bubonic plague, the illness, is pesto. is
the calamity in general - the blow that lands, which is exactly what the Latin
plaga meant. Keeping the two apart matters in any historical text, where both
turn up in the same paragraph.
A false seam. -Ag- is not a suffix here. Esperanto does have ago, an
act or deed, and roots do end up in front of it (kunagi, to act together),
but is not pl- plus ago: there is no root pl-, and the whole word
came from Latin as one piece. Split it and nothing is left that means anything.
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