pleroma

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Late Latin pleroma (“(Gnosticism) spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God”), from Koine Greek πλήρωμᾰ (plḗrōmă, “(biblical) perfect fullness”), Ancient Greek πλήρωμᾰ (plḗrōmă, “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 (-mă, suffix forming nouns denoting the result or effect of an action). Noun sense 1.1 (“plant”) is borrowed from New Latin Pleroma, a genus name coined by the Scottish botanist David Don (1799–1841) in 1822, from Ancient Greek πλήρωμᾰ (plḗrōmă) (see above) to describe the way the seeds of the plant filled the capsule. Noun sense 2 (“state of perfect fullness”) is chiefly used in reference to Colossians 2:9 of the Bible: “Ὅτι ἐν αὐτῶῳ κατοικεῖ πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα τῆς θεότητος σωματικῶς [For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form]”. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /plɪˈɹəʊmə/ (General American) IPA(key): /pləˈɹoʊmə/ Rhymes: -əʊmə Hyphenation: ple‧ro‧ma === Noun === pleroma (countable and uncountable, plural pleromas) (botany) A plant of the genus Pleroma. (archaic or obsolete, rare) Synonym of plerome (“the central portion of the apical meristem in a growing plant root or stem which, according to the histogen theory, gives rise to the endodermis and stele”). (Christianity) A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being as incarnated in Jesus Christ. ==== Derived terms ==== pleromatic ==== Translations ==== === Proper noun === pleroma (Gnosticism, historical) Often preceded by the: the spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God. ==== Alternative forms ==== Pleroma ==== Translations ==== === References === === Further reading === pleroma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Pleroma (plant) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia === Anagrams === Palermo, Palmero, Palmore, leproma, polearm == Catalan == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma). === Noun === pleroma m (uncountable) (Gnosticism) pleroma === Further reading === “pleroma”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007 “pleroma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026 “pleroma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua. Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “pleroma”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan) == Italian == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma). === Noun === pleroma m (Gnosticism) pleroma === Anagrams === Palermo == Portuguese == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma). === Pronunciation === Hyphenation: ple‧ro‧ma === Noun === pleroma m (uncountable) (Gnosticism) pleroma === Further reading === “pleroma”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026 “pleroma”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026 == Serbo-Croatian == === Etymology === From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma, “a filling up, fullness”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /plerǒːma/ Hyphenation: ple‧ro‧ma === Noun === pleróma f (Cyrillic spelling плеро́ма) (uncountable, Gnosticism) Pleroma ==== Declension ====