pleroma

See also Pleroma, pléroma, and плерома

English

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Alternative forms

• Pleroma

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA: /pləˈɹoʊmə/

Noun

pleroma (uncountable)

1. (chiefly theology) A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being.
2. (Gnosticism) The spiritual universe seen in terms of the full totality of the powers and essence of God.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 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.

Translations

the region of light above the world

Armenian: պլերոմա (hy) (pleroma) Catalan: pleroma (ca) m. Esperanto: Pleromo (eo) French: plérôme (fr) m. German: Pleroma (de) n. Greek: πλήρωμα (el) (pliroma) n. Hebrew: פלרומה (he) (pleroma) Italian: pleroma (it) m. Japanese: プレーローマ (ja) (purērōma)

Lithuanian: pleroma (lt) f. Portuguese: pleroma (pt) Russian: плеро́ма (ru) f. Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: плерома (sh) Roman: pleroma (sh) Spanish: pléroma (es) m. Swedish: Pleroma (sv) n.

Anagrams

• Palermo, polearm

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Catalan

Wikipedia ^ca

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plērōma)

Noun

pleroma m. (uncountable)

1. (Gnosticism) pleroma

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Italian

Wikipedia ^it

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plērōma)

Noun

pleroma m.

1. (Gnosticism) pleroma

Anagrams

• Palermo

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Portuguese

Wikipedia ^pt

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plērōma)

Noun

pleroma m. (usually uncountable)

1. (Gnosticism) pleroma

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plērōma, “a filling up, fullness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /plerǒːma/
• Hyphenation: ple‧ro‧ma

Noun

pleróma f. (Cyrillic spelling плеро́ма)

1. (uncountable, Gnosticism) Pleroma

Declension

    declension of pleroma

	singular
nominative	pleroma
genitive	plerome
dative	pleromi
accusative	pleromu
vocative	pleromo
locative	pleromi
instrumental	pleromom