Meanings
- An intensifying prefix, roughly equivalent to more or very.
The main prefixes in the controlled language include “un-“, “plus-“, “doubleplus-“, “ante-” and “post-“. […] “Plus-” and “doubleplus-” are both intensifiers that replace words of different extremities, and the words very and extremely respectively.
2020 August 8, Zui, “Controlled Languages — Newspeak”, in The Language Closet
Origin
- Latinplūs“more”
- Englishplus-
From plus, from Latin plūs (“more”). Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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