plerumque

From plērusque: as a noun, a substantivisation of its neuter forms; as an adverb, a neuter adverbial accusative.

• plērunque (New Latin)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɫeːˈrʊŋ.kʷɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pleˈruŋ.kʷe]

plērumque n (genitive plērīque); second declension

1. (construed with a partitive genitive) the greatest part, the greater part

Second-declension noun (neuter) with an indeclinable portion.

plērumque (not comparable)

1. for the most part, on most occasions, (for) most of the time, mostly, usually, generally, ordinarily, very commonly, very often, very frequently

   Exsecūtiō officiī plērumque certum suae ūtilitātis proximae sacrificium implicat.

   The performance of a duty usually involves a certain sacrifice of one's own immediate benefit.

2. (post-Augustan, less emphatically) on many occasions, often, frequently
   1. to a large extent, largely

• “plērumque”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ¶ 2 plērumquĕ, ¶ 2 in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,190/2.
• “plērusque 2.b” on page 1,391/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)

plērumque

1. inflection of plērusque:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular