plenus

From Proto-Italic *plēnos, from an e-grade variant of Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”) (the zero-grade form would have given *plānus). Cognates include Ancient Greek πλήρης (plḗrēs) and πλέως (pléōs), Sanskrit पूर्ण (pūrṇa), Old English full (English full), Persian پر (por), Old Irish lán, Old Church Slavonic пльнъ (plĭnŭ), Lithuanian pilnas.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈpleː.nus/, [ˈpɫ̪eːnʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈple.nus/, [ˈplɛːnus]

plēnus (feminine plēna, neuter plēnum, comparative plēnior, superlative plēnissimus, adverb plēnē); first/second-declension adjective

1. full, filled, complete

   Synonyms: refertus, implētus, explētus, complētus, frequens

   Antonyms: vacuus, vanus, inānis

2. (with genitive, or ablative in later Latin) full (of), plump
3. (poetic) satisfied

First/second-declension adjective.

• plēnārius
• plēnē
• plēnilūnium
• plēnitūdo
• plēnum
• plērus
• pleō

• “plenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “plenus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• plenus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• plenus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • a very charming book: liber plenus delectationis
    
  • a most courteous letter: litterae officii or humanitatis plenae