plerique Latin · revision 17977

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=compound|attested=c. 235–200 BC, Naevius|origins=ine-pro *pleh₁-}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA (Classical): [pɫeːˈriː.kʷɛ]^(Wiktionary)

+ * IPA (Ecclesiastical): [pleˈriː.kʷe]^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''plērīque''' ''m pl'' (genitive plērōrumque or plērōrunque); second declension^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is the masculine plural of [[m|la|plērusque|t=most]], used as a noun.^(Wiktionary)^(OLD 2012) [[m|la|plērusque]] is formed [[af|la|plērus|-que|t1=most]];^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) [[m|la|plērus]], an early form of it, is related to [[m|la|plēnus|t=full]] and goes back to [[itc-pro|*plēros]] and [[ine-pro|*pleh₁-|t=to fill]].^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(Wiktionary) Compare [[grc|πλήρης|tr=plḗrēs|t=full]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ Naevius has ''plērīque omnēs subiguntur sub ūnum iūdicium'', “nearly all are brought under one judgement”.^(OLD 2012) Plautus has ''habent hunc mōrem plērīque argentāriī'', “most bankers have this habit”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ ''Plērīque'' is “most, the greater number”, with a noun or alone (Cicero: ''lautumiās Syrācūsānās … plērīque nōstis'', “most of you know the quarries of Syracuse”).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) ''Plērīque omnēs'' is “nearly all”.^(OLD 2012) Of people in general it is “most people, the majority” (Terence: ''sorōrem plērīque esse crēdēbant meam'', “most people believed she was my sister”).^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary) From Quintilian and Tacitus on it can also mean simply “very many”.^(OLD 2012)

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+ Church Latin glosses it “very many, the majority”.^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * c. 235–200 BC – Naevius: ''plērīque omnēs''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 250–184 BC – Plautus: ''plērīque argentāriī''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * 190–159 BC – Terence: ''sorōrem plērīque esse crēdēbant meam''.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

+ * c. 35–95/96 AD – Quintilian uses it for “very many”.^(OLD 2012)^(Köbler 2010)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # Most (of them), the greater number.^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)

+ # Most people, the [[m|en|majority]].^(OLD 2012)^(Wiktionary)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ===Adjective===

+ # Most, the greater part of.^(OLD 2012)

+ # ''plērīque omnēs'': nearly all.^(OLD 2012)

+ # Very many.^(OLD 2012)^(Stelten 1995)

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[plērusque]]

+ * [[plērumque]]

+ * [[plēnus]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}