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First attest in English 1382, "affliction, calamity, evil, scourge," also "malignant disease," from Middle French plague, from Later Latin plaga, used in Vulgate Latin Bible for "pestilence," from Latin plaga "stroke, wound," probably from root of plangere "to strike, lament (by beating the breast)," from or cognate with Greek (Doric) plaga "blow," from ProtoIndoEuropean *plag- "hit" (cf. Old English flocan "to strike, beat," Gothic flokan "to bewail," Germanic fluchen, OldFriesian floka "to curse"). Old Irish Gaelic plag (genitive plaige) "plague, pestilence" is from Latin, specifically as referent to "Bubonic Plague" from 1601. The verb is from 1481; in the sense of "bother, annoy" it is first recorded 1594. Plaguey "vexatious" is attested from 1615.
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The word for plague in Greek is panoukla. The word for plague in Italian is peste, and the word in Spanish is plaga.
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The distinction between nouns is not whether they are abstract or common, but whether they are abstract or concrete.The word plague may be either abstract or concrete, common or proper.- As a disease, it is a concrete noun for the physical condition caused by an infection.- It is used metaphorically as an abstract noun: a plague of immigrants, a plague of economic woes.- Either of the above are common nouns. The proper noun, a capitalized form, is the Plague to refer to an historic illness, an epidemic of bubonic plague also known as the Black Death.
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