plene

See also: pleně

English

Etymology

From Latin plēnus (“full”) (adjective) or plēnē (“fully”) (adverb).

Adverb

plene (not comparable)

1. (chiefly of abjad script) With matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels) written out.
   • 2013, Gregor Geiger, Plene Writing of the Qōṭēl Pattern in the Dead Sea Scrolls:

     In the Mishnah (according to the Kaufmann Codex), this vowel is nearly consistently written plene (about 10,000 occurrences); most exceptions are in the tractate Avot.

Adjective

plene (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Full, complete, whole.
   • 1671, Robert MacWard, The true non-conformist in answere to the modest and free conference betwixt a conformist and a non-conformist about the present distempers of Scotland:

     Yet, Sir, think you, that your Omission, must so farre charme us to oblivion, as to make us forget, that as King Charles the first, did in plene Parliament, An. 1641. under his hand-writing, ratifie the Nationall Covenant, with the explication, and Bond thereto annexed, and prior Acts made anent it, with such solemnities and concurrent considerations, as it is impossible to question it;

2. (chiefly of abjad script) Written with matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels).

   Antonym: defective

   • 2011, Emanuel Tov, Computer-Assisted Tools for Textual Criticism:

     The Samaritan Pentateuch reflects the trend of the plene spellings in the post-Pentateuchal books rather than the defective spellings in the Torah in the Masoretic Text.

Noun

plene (plural plenes)

1. (chiefly of abjad script) A word written with matres lectionis (letters indicating vowels).
   • 2011, Christian D. Ginsburg, Jacob Ben Chajim Ibn Adonijah's Introduction to the Rabbinic Bible: Hebrew and English with Explanatory Notes:

     Thus, in the Pentateuch and in the earlier prophets the plenes are counted, whilst in the later prophets the defectives are enumerated.

Anagrams

• Le Pen

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈplɛnɛ]

Noun

plene m

1. vocative singular of plen

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Adverb

plene

1. fully

Coordinate terms

• parte

Latin

Etymology 1

Adverb

plēnē (comparative plēnius, superlative plēnissimē)

1. fully, completely

Etymology 2

Adjective

plēne

1. vocative masculine singular of plēnus

References

• “plene”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “plene”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• plene in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.