Plain Definition
(rare, poetic) A lamentation.
A battlefield.
(colloquial) Simply.
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Origin of Plain
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From Anglo-Norman plainer, pleiner, variant of Anglo-Norman and Old French pleindre, plaindre, from Latin plangere, present active infinitive of plangō.
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From Anglo-Norman pleyn, playn, Middle French plain, plein, from Latin plānus (“flat, even, level, plain").
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From Old French plain, from Latin plānum (“level ground, a plain"), neuter substantive from plānus (“level, even, flat").
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Middle English from Old French from Latin plānus pelə-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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