Noun: plenum
| Singular | plenum |
| Plural | plenums; plena |
Sample Sentences
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The idea was that a thing could only move into an empty place, and that, in a plenum, there are no empty places. [1946, Bertrand Russell, A History of Western Philosophy:]
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The key to understanding medieval interpretations of motion in hypothetically void space is to realize that medieval natural philosophers analyzed the same bodies in the void that they discussed in the plenum of their ordinary world. [2001, Edward Grant, God and Reason in the Middle Ages, page 176:]
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He lay on the long stone slant down to the slapping waves, his denim shorts, sneakers, and socks under his head for a pillow, feeling the splendour of distance in all directions, the liquid silence, the plenum of aloneness. [1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:]
Nouns inflected like plenum
hemiscrotum,
saeculum,
stramonium,
proscenium,
dinotherium,
quinquennium,
ambulacrum,
prolabium,
preepisternum,
coimperium,
septennium,
fulcrum,
emporium,
subminimum,
mausolæum,
mausoleum,
serpentarium,
triregnum,
viaticum,
megaannum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin plēnum n (“space filled with matter”), from plēnus (“full”). The sense of "legislative meeting" is a semantic loan from Russian пле́нум (plénum, “plenary session”), from the same Latin source. See: Latin Nouns '
plēnum'.
Verbs referencing "plenum"
Polish Nouns
plenum.