pleroma

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Late Latin pleroma, from Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma, a filling up, fullness).

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /pləˈɹoʊmə/
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Noun

pleroma (countable and uncountable, plural pleromas)

  1. (botany) A plant of the genus Pleroma.
  2. (botany) The central portion of the primary meristem.
    • 1876, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist - Volumes 5-6, page 750:
      In the second type only two separate meristem tissues are present in the tips of the roots; a pleroma and a common tissue, from which the primary bark and epidermis and root-cap proceed.
    • 1890, English Mechanic and World of Science - Volume 51, page 543:
      And in the pleroma of the primary meristem of roots there is not only cambium (persistent parenchyma) and procambium (forerunner of fibres and vessels), but pericambium -- i.e., a special outer layer of the pleroma that remains for a long time as meristem.
    • 2001, Russian Journal of Developmental Biology, Volume 32, page 205:
      In the pleroma of hyacinth and pea roots, tmin increases along the meristem, especially in its basal part.
  3. (chiefly theology) A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being.

Translations

Proper noun

the pleroma

  1. (Gnosticism) The spiritual universe seen in terms of the full totality of the powers and essence of God.
    • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber, published 1992, page 141:
      There is a way to comprehend the gnostic's giant onion of a world, the concentric circles, with the Pleroma beckoning there, the white heart of light, the source of that primal vision which for a second or two can recapture paradise.

Anagrams

Catalan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma).

Noun

pleroma m (uncountable)

  1. (Gnosticism) pleroma

Further reading

Italian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma).

Noun

pleroma m

  1. (Gnosticism) pleroma

Anagrams

Portuguese

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma).

Noun

pleroma m (uncountable)

  1. (Gnosticism) pleroma

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma, a filling up, fullness).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /plerǒːma/
  • Hyphenation: ple‧ro‧ma

Noun

pleróma f (Cyrillic spelling плеро́ма)

  1. (uncountable, Gnosticism) Pleroma

Declension

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