Etymology

plena

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Today it means: A style of Puerto Rican music having a highly syncopated rhythm and often satirical lyrics. Full definition →

Spanish plena ← French plaine
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The story

  1. Frenchplaine
  2. Spanishplena
  3. English todayplena

Borrowed from Spanish plena.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.