plaie

open wound; scourge

“Marguerite, d’une aiguille d’or à la pointe arrondie, sondait les plaies avec toute la délicatesse et l’habileté que maître Ambroise Paré eût pu déployer en pareille circonstance.” — Using a golden needle with a rounded tip, Marguerite probed the wounds with all the delicateness and skill that Master Ambroise Paré could have deployed under the same circumstances.

Inherited from Old French plaie, from Latin plāga (hence English plague). Cognate with Italian piaga, Spanish llaga, Catalan plaga, Romanian plagă, Galician and Portuguese chaga, and more distantly with Ancient Greek πληγή (plēgḗ, “wound”).