FromMedieval Latinplagia, fromLatinplaga, whence alsoSicilianpraja (cf.Praia a Mare),Portuguesepraia,Frenchplage,Spanishplaya,Romanianplai.
piaggia f (pluralpiagge)(archaic)
- stretch ofslopingterrain,slope
1300s–1310s,Dante Alighieri, “Canto I”, inInferno [Hell], lines28–30; republished asGiorgio Petrocchi, editor,La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence:publ.Le Lettere,1994:Poi ch’èi posato un poco il corpolasso,
ripresi via per lapiaggiadiserta,
sì che ’l piè fermo sempre era ’l più basso.- After I had rested my weary body a little, I resumed the way on the desertslope, such that the lower foot was always the firm one.
- stretch offlatterrain interrupting a slope
- alternative form ofspiaggia
See the etymology of the correspondinglemma form.
piaggia
- inflection ofpiaggiare:
- third-personsingularpresentindicative
- second-personsingularimperative
- piaggia in Treccani.it –Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
