ple

Abbreviation of English Palu'e.

ple

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Palu'e.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Palu'e terms

Inherited from Old Catalan ple (also plen), from Latin plēnus, from Proto-Italic *plēnos, from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”).

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈplɛ]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈplə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈple]

• Audio:

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ple (feminine plena, masculine plural plens, feminine plural plenes)

1. full (containing the maximum possible amount of that which can fit in the space available)

   Synonym: (full of people) complet

   Antonym: buit

2. replete, abounding

   Synonym: replè

3. (of the moon) full (wholly illuminated)
4. full (plump, round)
5. (emphatic, before the noun) in the middle of (a time or space); at the height of; in broad

   en ple hivern ― in the middle of winter

   • 2020 September 21, David Miró, “Quantes notícies caben en un diari?”, in Ara‎^[1]:

     La història d’un refugiat valdrà més si estem en plena crisi dels refugiats.

     The story of a refugee will be worth more if we're in the middle of a refugee crisis.

• terraplè

ple m (plural plens)

1. plenary meeting (of a parliament, town council, etc.)
2. (bowling) strike

• “ple”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “ple”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “ple” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “ple” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

• ple'th (used before vowels and h)

Univerbation of py (“what”) +‎ le (“place”) +‎ y (“verbal particle”). Cognate with Welsh ble and Breton pelec'h.

ple (triggers mixed mutation)

1. where

• plu

From Latin plus.

ple

1. (comparative adjective) more

Borrowed from Persian پول (pol).

• IPA^(key): /pl̪e/, /pl̪ɛ/

ple ?

1. money

• Matras, Yaron (2012) A Grammar of Domari (Mouton Grammar Library)‎^[2], Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 426

plē

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pleō

From Old French plait, plaid, from Medieval Latin placitum.

• plee, pleet, playt, plai, plei, plete, pley, plaid, plait

• IPA^(key): /plɛː/, /plæi̯/, /plɛːt/, /plæi̯t/
• Rhymes: -ɛː, -æi̯

ple (plural plees)

1. disputation, arguing, debate
2. warfare, conflict, fighting
3. (law) A legal dispute or lawsuit.
4. (law) A legal plea or allegation (from either party)
5. (rare) plea, beseeching, petition

• pleyen

• English: plea
• Scots: plea

• “plē, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 May 2018.

ple

1. alternative form of pleyen (“to plea”)

From Latin plēnus.

ple

1. full

• Occitan: plen (from a variant form)

Borrowed from English plea.

• Homophone: p'le (“where”)

ple m or f (plural pleon)

1. plea
2. excuse, justification, appeal

   Synonyms: esgus, cyfiawnhad, apêl

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “ple”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies