English
plage
Plage comes from French plage ‘beach’, and goes back to Late Latin plagia ‘slope, slant’.
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEplagia‘slope, slant’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600plage
- Italianc. 1300–presentpiaggia
- Frenchc. 1600–presentplage‘beach’
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1547same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Late Latinc. 200–600 CEplagia‘slope, slant’
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600plage
- Italianc. 1300–presentpiaggia
- Frenchc. 1600–presentplage‘beach’
- Englishearliest quotation a. 1547same form
Earliest quotation: a. 1547, Edward Hall, Hall's chronicle: “King Henry and his faction nesteled and strēgthēd him…”
Linked words
through Latin plaga ‘region’
through Late Latin plagia ‘slope, slant’
Today it means
noun A region viewed in the context of its climate; a clime or zone.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Late Latin plagia / plage