Pleroma

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See also: pleroma, pléroma, and плерома

Translingual[edit]

Pleroma gaudichaudianum

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πλήρωμᾰ (plḗrōma, “that which fills, a complement; a filling up, a completing”), from πληρόω (plēróō, “to make full, fill; to complete, finish”) (from πλήρης (plḗrēs, “complete, full”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)) + -όω (-óō, suffix forming verbs with the sense of making someone be or do something)) + -μᾰ (-ma, suffix forming nouns denoting the result or effect of an action).[1][2] The plant genus was coined by the Scottish botanist David Don (1799–1841) in 1822 to describe the way the seeds of the plant filled the capsule.[3]

Proper noun[edit]

Pleroma n

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Melastomataceae – certain tropical plants.
  2. A taxonomic genus within the family Pleromidae – certain sea sponges.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Compare “pleroma, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
  2. ^ Compare “pleroma, n.”, in Collins English Dictionary.
  3. ^ David Don (1822 November 16) “XXIV.—An Illustration of the Natural Family of Plants called Melastomaceæ.”, in Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, volume IV, part II, Edinburgh: […] [by P. Neill] for Adam Black, […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, published 1823, →OCLC, page 295: “Nomen duxi ab voce Græca πληρωμα, plenitudo, quòd loculi capsulæ placentis carnosis seminiferis farcti sunt. ― I took the name from the Greek word πληρωμα, fullness, as the loculi of the capsules are stuffed with fleshy seed-producing cakes.”

Further reading[edit]

plant
sponge

English[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

Pleroma

  1. (Gnosticism, historical) Alternative letter-case form of pleroma (“the spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God”)

Anagrams[edit]

German[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma, “a filling up, fullness”).

Noun[edit]

Pleroma n (strong, genitive Pleroma, no plural)

  1. (Gnosticism) Pleroma

Declension[edit]

Declension of Pleroma [sg-only, neuter, strong]
singular
indef. def. noun
nominative ein das Pleroma
genitive eines des Pleroma
dative einem dem Pleroma
accusative ein das Pleroma

Swedish[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma, “a filling up, fullness”).

Noun[edit]

Pleroma n

  1. (Gnosticism) Pleroma
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