plantage

plantage

See also: Plantage

English

Etymology

plant +‎ -age. In later use influenced by French plantage and Dutch plantage.

Noun

plantage (countable and uncountable, plural plantages)

1. Plants, vegetation; specifically, the planting or cultivation of plants.
   • c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene ii]:

     As true as steel, as plantage to the moon.

   • 1634, Charles Fitz-Geffry, The blessed birth-day celebrated in some pious meditations, on the angels anthem, page 11:

     And thus from Maries Wombe [footnote: Isaiah 23:2] a Plant proceeded,
     Which neither setting, neither plantage needed.

   • 1637, Nathaneel Whiting, The pleasant historie of Albino and Bellama, page 82:

     The jealous matrone with suspitious eye,
     Did read their common ill in every face,
     Espyde the breach of their virginity,
     And fear'd a plantage with an infant race.

   • 1640, William Lithgow, The totall discourse, of the rare adventures, and painefull peregrinations of long nineteene yeares travailes from Scotland, to the most famous kingdomes […] , page 14:

     And notwithstanding that for the space of 12 miles round about Rome, there are neither Cornes nor Wines, nor Village, Plantage, or Cultinage, save onely playne and pastoragious fields; […]

   • 1894 July, “The American Association: Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Meeting at Niagara Falls”, in The National Nurseryman, volume 2, number 6, page 74:

     From 1890, when the McKinley bill passed, nursery products had steadily declined, until to-day many articles were being offered at rates below the actual cost of production, so that the people who favored the restoration of the duty have lived to see their prophesies falsified, because the result has not been to decrease the plantage and increase the price, but has had exactly the opposite effect.

   • 1967, A. S. Alov, “Soil selection. 1. Methods of the use of lower horizons to raise soil fertility”, in Agrochimica, volume 11, number 2, page 164:

     A one-bottom plantage plough does not fully turn the slice and leaves an uneven soil profile resulting in alternating bands of the plant stand in the first year. Due to this fact the plantage results in additional yields, but these are not so high as after the more proper transfer (or mixing) horizons […]

   • 2008, Virdi v Chana [2008] 11 WLUK 718 Case Digest:

     The adjudicator had correctly noted that V was still able to maintain the part of the land that she owned and deal with it as the owner in that she had the ability to alter the surface of the land, maintain her fence, and plantage providing they did not interfere with the parking.[1]

References

• plantage at OneLook Dictionary Search
• plantage in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911

1. For evidence that this refers to cultivation, see the corresponding quotation of the aforementioned adjudicator as laid out in the original judgment, which refers to the growing of plants:

   Virdi v Chana [2008] EWHC 2901 (Ch)‎, 2008, archived from the original on 2022-02-27, retrieved 2022-02-27:

   It seems to me relevant, too, that only a part of the Disputed Land belongs to Mrs Virdi. She is able to use that part by maintaining it, dealing with it as owner. So, for instance, she can grow a plant or trellis close to the fence (so long as it does not prevent parking); she could place bicycles on this land; she could alter the surface, replace and repaint the fencing, and so on.

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Danish

Noun

plantage

1. a plantation

Declension

Declension of plantage

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	plantage	plantagen	plantager	plantagerne
genitive	plantages	plantagens	plantagers	plantagernes

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Dutch

Alternative forms

• plantagie (obsolete)
• plantaadje (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from French plantage. Equivalent to planten +‎ -age.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌplɑnˈtaː.ʒə/

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• Hyphenation: plan‧ta‧ge
• Rhymes: -aːʒə
• Homophone: Plantage

Noun

plantage f (plural plantages, diminutive plantagetje n)

1. plantation
2. A small group of plants and trees; a small planted area.
3. (obsolete) The act of planting.

Derived terms

• bananenplantage
• katoenplantage
• koffieplantage
• plantagehouder
• plantageslaaf
• suikerplantage
• theeplantage
• wietplantage

Descendants

• Negerhollands: planty, plantaj, plantey, plantagie
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: plantai (dated)
• → Arawak: plantasi
• → Indonesian: plantase
• → Papiamentu: plantashi
• → Sranan Tongo: pranasi
  • → Caribbean Javanese: pernangsi, pernasi, prenangsi, prenasi

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French

Etymology

planter +‎ -age

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plɑ̃.taʒ/

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Noun

plantage m (plural plantages)

1. the action of planting
2. (computing) crash

Further reading

• “plantage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Swedish

Noun

plantage c

1. a plantation (farm, often in tropical countries)

Declension

Declension of plantage
	Singular		Plural
	Indefinite	Definite	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	plantage	plantagen	plantager	plantagerna
Genitive	plantages	plantagens	plantagers	plantagernas

References

• plantage in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• plantage in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• plantage in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)