pleroma

• Pleroma

From Late Latin pleroma, from Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma, “a filling up, fullness”).

• (US) IPA^(key): /pləˈɹoʊmə/

pleroma (countable and uncountable, plural pleromas)

1. (botony) The central portion of the primary meristem.
   • 1876, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist - Volumes 5-6, page 750:

     In the second type only two separate meristem tissues are present in the tips of the roots ; a pleroma and a common tissue, from which the primary bark and epidermis and root-cap proceed.

   • 1890, English Mechanic and World of Science - Volume 51, page 543:

     And in 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 pleroma that remains for a long time as meristem.

   • 2001, Russian Journal of Developmental Biology, Volume 32, page 205:

     In the pleroma of hyacinth and pea roots, t_min increases along the meristem, especially in its basal part.

2. (chiefly theology) A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being.
3. (Gnosticism) The spiritual universe seen in terms of the full totality of the powers and essence of God.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, page 141:

     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.

• Palermo, Palmero, Palmore, leproma, polearm

From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma)

pleroma m (uncountable)

1. (Gnosticism) pleroma

From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma)

pleroma m

1. (Gnosticism) pleroma

• Palermo

From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma)

pleroma m (uncountable)

1. (Gnosticism) pleroma

From Ancient Greek πλήρωμα (plḗrōma, “a filling up, fullness”).

• IPA^(key): /plerǒːma/
• Hyphenation: ple‧ro‧ma

pleróma f (Cyrillic spelling плеро́ма)

1. (uncountable, Gnosticism) Pleroma