Words that come from Latin “plangere”

192 words across 45 languages descend from Latin plangere — including plaintiff, complain, plague, complaining, plaintive, plagiarism, complainant, plaintively.

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English (53)

Latin (15)

Italian (13)

French (10)

Old French (10)

Spanish (10)

Portuguese (9)

Middle English (8)

Albanian (4)

Romanian (4)

German (4)

Russian (3)

Georgian (3)

Middle French (3)

Norwegian Bokmål (3)

Old Portuguese (3)

Late Latin (3)

Czech (2)

Luxembourgish (2)

Esperanto (2)

Dalmatian (2)

Serbo-Croatian (2)

Medieval Latin (2)

Slovak (1)

Catalan (1)

Turkish (1)

Slovene (1)

Macedonian (1)

Bulgarian (1)

Sicilian (1)

Aromanian (1)

Neapolitan (1)

Abkhaz (1)

Yiddish (1)

Dutch (1)

Polish (1)

Icelandic (1)

Galician (1)

Haitian Creole (1)

Mauritian Creole (1)

Papiamentu (1)

Norwegian Nynorsk (1)

Welsh (1)

Low German (1)

Middle High German (1)