Etymology

plerion

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Ancient Greek πλήρης
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The story

  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromπλήρης“full”
  2. English todayplerion

Coined by Weiler & Panagia (1978), from Ancient Greek πλήρης (plḗrēs, “full”).

Words from the same roots

Ancient Greekπλήρης all →

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