plerusque

plērus +‎ -que

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /pleːˈrus.kʷe/, [pɫeːˈrʊs.kᶣɛ]

plērusque (feminine plēraque, neuter plērumque or plērunque); first/second declension

1. most, very many, most of, the greater or larger part or number of, a very great part or number of
2. (less emphatically) a considerable part or number of, a great part or number of, many, much, many of, much of

• Apart from in the works of C. Sallustius Crispus, this adjective only occurs in plural forms in Classical sources; moreover, the genitive plural forms are exclusively post-Classical, and rare generally. The forms with m assimilated to n (plēranque, plērārunque, plērōrunque, and plērunque), meanwhile, do not occur until the New Latin period.

First/second declension.

First/second declension, with m → n in compounds.

• plērusque in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• plerusque in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• plērusquĕ in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 1,190/2
• “plērusque” on page 1,391 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)