pleroma

See also: Pleroma, pléroma, and плерома

English

Alternative forms

• Pleroma

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  pleroma, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma, “a filling up, fullness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pləˈɹoʊmə/

Noun

pleroma (countable and uncountable, plural pleromas)

1. (botony) 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, t_min increases along the meristem, especially in its basal part.

2. (chiefly theology) A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being.
3. (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, 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.

Translations

the region of light above the world

• Armenian: պլերոմա (pleroma)
• Catalan: pleroma m
• Esperanto: Pleromo
• French: plérôme (fr) m
• German: Pleroma n
• Greek: πλήρωμα (el) n (plíroma)
• Hebrew: פלרומה (pleroma)
• Italian: pleroma m
• Japanese: プレーローマ (purērōma)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: pleroma f
• Occitan: pleroma m
• Portuguese: pleroma
• Russian: плеро́ма (ru) f (pleróma)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: плерома

  Roman: pleroma (sh)

• Spanish: pléroma m
• Swedish: Pleroma n

Anagrams

• Palermo, Palmero, Palmore, leproma, polearm

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Catalan

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma).

Noun

pleroma m (uncountable)

1. (Gnosticism) pleroma

Further reading

• “pleroma” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “pleroma”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “pleroma” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “pleroma” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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Italian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma)

Noun

pleroma m

1. (Gnosticism) pleroma

Anagrams

• Palermo

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Portuguese

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma)

Noun

pleroma m (uncountable)

1. (Gnosticism) pleroma

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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

Declension of pleroma

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