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plagae

plagae is a Latin form of plaga, meaning “(1) blow, stroke, wound; (2) region, tract; (3) hunting net”. It is the nominative plural feminine noun.

Found 32 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.5.134: … rem illorum mortis atque cruciatus; dico etiam in ipso supplicio mercedem lacrimarum, mercedem vulneris atque plagae, mercedem funeris ac sepulturae constitui nefas fuisse.

Phaedrus, Fabulae appendix.18.6: Plagae supersunt, desunt mihi cibaria;

All forms of plaga (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.