Noun: plein
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | plein |
| Plural m | pleins |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like plein
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old French plein, from Latin plēnus, from Proto-Italic *plēnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”). Compare Catalan ple; Italian pieno; Portuguese cheio; Romanian plin; Sardinian prenu; Spanish lleno; English plene, full. See: Latin Nouns '
plēnus', Catalan Nouns '
ple', Italian Nouns '
pieno', Portuguese Nouns '
cheio'.
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