pleroma
Syllables: ple·ro·ma/plɪˈɹəʊmə/US/pləˈɹoʊmə/
pleroma noun: a plant of the genus Pleroma.
_-_Tibouchina_urvilleana_Melastomataceae_IMG_0793.JPG){kind=link}
Noun
pleroma (countable and uncountable, plural pleromas)
- A plant of the genus Pleroma.
- Synonym of plerome (“the central portion of the apical meristem in a growing plant root or stem which, according to the histogen theory, gives rise to the endodermis and stele”).
- In his [Jakob Eriksson's] investigations of the meristem (the tissue from which the permanent tissues are formed) by dicotyledonous roots he found four types of growth, […] In the second type only two separate meristem tissues are present in the tips of the roots; a pleroma and a common tissue...1876 December 9, “[Punctum vegetationis, or Growing Point of Dicotyledonous Roots]”, in The Gardeners’ Chronicle. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Horticulture and Allied Subjects, volume VI (New...
- [I]n 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 plerome that remains for a long time as meristem.1890 August 22, Edward Aveling, “Botany for Students. Chapter XXII.—The Root.”, in The English Mechanic and World of Science and Art. […], volume LI, number 1326, London: […] E[beneezer] J....
- Synonyms:
- plerome
- A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being as incarnated in Jesus Christ.
- And is all this Cabala too, and only to be uſed when People are to be gulled with noiſy Nothings? i.e. with empty Pleroma's, and ſilent Thunderclaps.1697 May 5 (date written; Gregorian calendar), E. W. [i.e., Edward Stillingfleet], “Postscript”, in The Bishop of Worcester’s Answer to Mr. [John] Locke’s Letter, Concerning Some Passages Relating to...
Proper noun (1)
pleroma
- Often preceded by the: the spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God.
- 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.1974, Lawrence Durrell, “Macabru”, in Monsieur (The Avignon Quintet; 1), New York, N.Y.: Viking Press, published 1975, →ISBN, page 131
Proper noun (2) capitalized: Pleroma
Pleroma
Synonyms of pleroma
Forms of pleroma
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | pleromas |
| Proper noun | |
| alternative form | Pleroma |
Origin of pleroma
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]”.
Words formed from pleroma
Words that rhyme with pleroma
Questions about pleroma
- What does pleroma mean?
- Pleroma means a plant of the genus Pleroma.
- What part of speech is pleroma?
- Pleroma can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce pleroma?
- Pleroma is pronounced /plɪˈɹəʊmə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of pleroma?
- The plural of pleroma is pleromas.
Words near pleroma in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: pleroma (page history and authors); Pleroma (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-pleroma.wav.
Cite this entry: “pleroma.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pleroma. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.