plerique

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɫeːˈriː.kʷɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pleˈriː.kʷe]

Etymology 1

A substantivisation of the masculine plural forms of the adjective plērusque.

Noun

plērīque m pl (genitive plērōrumque or plērōrunque); second declension

1. (with specific referents) most of them
2. (of people generally) most people, most men, the majority
   • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.1.4:

     Sed ēvēnit mihi quod plērīsque nōn suō vitiō ad inopiam redāctīs: omnēs ignōscunt, nēmō succurrit.

     But what has happened to me is what [happens] to most people reduced to poverty not by their own fault: everyone forgives, no one helps.
     (The financially wealthy Seneca writes with playful irony about a perceived lack of time — everyone understands the complaint, although no one can replace what has been lost.)

Declension

Second-declension noun (without or with m optionally → n in compounds) with an indeclinable portion, plural only.

	plural
nominative	plērīque
genitive	plērōrumque plērōrunque
dative	plērīsque
accusative	plērōsque
ablative	plērīsque
vocative	plērīque

Etymology 2

Regularly declined forms of plērusque (adjective).

Adjective

plērīque

1. inflection of plērusque:
   1. nominative/vocative masculine plural
   2. genitive masculine/neuter singular

Etymology 3

A regularly declined form of plērumque (noun).

Noun

plērīque n

1. genitive singular of plērumque

References

• “plērīque”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “plerique”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• plērīquĕ in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,190/2.
• “plērīque” on page 1,391/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)