Pleroma

See also: pleroma, pléroma, and плерома

Translingual
Pleroma gaudichaudianum

Etymology

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

Pleroma n

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

Hypernyms

Hyponyms

References
  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
plant
sponge

English

Proper noun

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

German

Etymology

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

Noun

Pleroma n (strong, genitive Pleroma, no plural)

  1. (Gnosticism) Pleroma

Declension
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

Etymology

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

Noun

Pleroma n

  1. (Gnosticism) Pleroma
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