Pronounced: GRAYZH, noun/adj
Notes: Another new word for me
Yesterday’s word
The word plage is
- the beach of a seaside resort
- a bright region on the sun caused by the light emitted by clouds of calcium or hydrogen and often associated with a sunspot
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1800s (definition 1) and the mid 1900s (definition 2)
Background / Comments
Our word really bounced around before it came into English: it came from the French word plage, which came from the Italian word piaggia, which came from the Late Latin word plagia, which came from the Greek word plagios (sideways; oblique).
