plaine

English

Adjective

plaine (comparative more plaine, superlative most plaine)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• Alpine, Lapine, Nepali, alpine, apelin, penial, pineal

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plɛn/

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• Homophone: pleine
• Rhymes: -ɛn

Adjective

plaine

1. feminine singular of plain

Noun

plaine f (plural plaines)

1. plain

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• alépin, lapine, pinéal

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Portuguese

Verb

plaine

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of plainar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of plainar
3. third-person singular imperative of plainar