plaine
English
Adjective
plaine (comparative more plaine, superlative most plaine)
- Obsolete spelling of plain
- 1570, Roger Ascham, The Scholemaster:
- Or plaine and perfite way of teachyng children, to vnderstand, write, and speake, the Latin tong, but specially purposed for the priuate brynging vp of youth in Ientlemen and Noble mens houses, and commodious also for all such, as haue forgot the Latin tonge, and would, by themselues, without a Scholemaster, in short tyme, and with small paines, recouer a sufficient habilitie, to vnderstand, write, and speake Latin.
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Anagrams
- Alpine, Lapine, Nepali, alpine, apelin, penial, pineal
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /plɛn/
Audio (file) - Homophone: pleine
- Rhymes: -ɛn
Adjective
plaine
- feminine singular of plain
Noun
plaine f (plural plaines)
- plain
Derived terms
- plaine de jeu/plaine de jeux
Further reading
- “plaine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- alépin, lapine, pinéal
Portuguese
Verb
plaine
- inflection of plainar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English pleyn, from Old French plain, from Latin planus.
Adjective
plaine
- simple
- 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, line 5:
- an na plaine garbe o' oure yola talke,
- and in the simple dress of our old dialect,
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References
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 114