Etymology

plus-

Today it means: An intensifying prefix, roughly equivalent to more or very. Full definition →

Latin plūs
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  1. Latin · derived fromplūs“more”
  2. English todayplus-

From plus, from Latin plūs (“more”). Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Words from the same roots

Latinplūs all →

pluspentupleplusquam-

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.