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- Ancient Greek · derived fromπλείων“more”
- English todayPliocene
From Ancient Greek πλείων (pleíōn, “more”) + καινός (kainós, “new”). Coined by English philosopher and historian of science William Whewell in 1831 for Charles Lyell, who introduced it in 1833 in his book Principles of Geology. By surface analysis, pleio- + -cene.
Words from the same roots
Ancient Greekπλείων all →
plyometricspleiotropypleo-
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.