pleroma

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• Received-Pronunciation: /plɪˈɹəʊmə/
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• General-American: /pləˈɹoʊmə/
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• rhymes with -əʊmə
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Learned borrowing from Late Latin pleroma (“(Gnosticism) spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God”), from Koine Greek πλήρωμᾰ (plḗrōmă, “(biblical) perfect fullness”), Ancient Greek πλήρωμᾰ (plḗrōmă, “that which fills, a complement; a filling up, a completing”), from πληρόω (plēróō, “to make full, fill; to complete, finish”) (from πλήρης (plḗrēs, “complete, full”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pleh1- (“to fill”)) + -όω (-óō, suffix forming verbs with the sense of making someone be or do something)) + -μᾰ (-mă, suffix forming nouns denoting the result or effect of an action). Noun sense 1.1 (“plant”) is borrowed from New Latin Pleroma, a genus name coined by the Scottish botanist David Don (1799–1841) in 1822, from Ancient Greek πλήρωμᾰ (plḗrōmă) (see above) to describe the way the seeds of the plant filled the capsule. Noun sense 2 (“state of perfect fullness”) is chiefly used in reference to Colossians 2:9 of the Bible: “Ὅτι ἐν αὐτῶῳ κατοικεῖ πᾶν τὸ πλήρωμα τῆς θεότητος σωματικῶς [For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form]”.

40 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: պլերոմա (pleroma) — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• Catalan: pleroma — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• Dutch: pleroma — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• Esperanto: pleromo — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• Finnish: täyteys — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• French: plérôme — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• German: Pleroma — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• Hungarian: pléróma — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• Italian: pleroma — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• Japanese: プレーローマ (purērōma) — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• Korean: 플레로마 (peulleroma) — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• Portuguese: pleroma — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• Romanian: pleroma — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• Russian: плеро́ма (pleróma) — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• Serbo-Croatian: плеро́ма — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• Serbo-Croatian: pleróma — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• Spanish: pléroma — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• Swedish: Pleroma — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• Ukrainian: Плерома — spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God
• Finnish: pleroma — plant of the genus Pleroma
• Armenian: պլերոմա (pleroma) — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• Catalan: pleroma — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• Esperanto: pleromo — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• Finnish: täyteys — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• French: plérôme — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• German: Pleroma — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• Greek: πλήρωμα (plíroma) — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• Hebrew: פלרומה (pleroma) — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• Italian: pleroma — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• Japanese: プレーローマ (purērōma) — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• Lithuanian: pleroma — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• Occitan: pleroma — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• Portuguese: pleroma — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• Romanian: pleroma — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• Romanian: plerom — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• Russian: плеро́ма (pleróma) — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• Serbo-Croatian: плеро́ма — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• Serbo-Croatian: pleróma — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• Spanish: pléroma — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ
• Swedish: Pleroma — state of perfect fullness, especially of God’s being as incarnated in Jesus Christ