Pleroma

See also: pleroma, pléroma, and плерома

Translingual

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek πλήρωμᾰ (plḗrōma, “that which fills, a complement; a filling up, a completing”), from πληρόω (plēróō, “to make full, fill; to complete, finish”) (from πλήρης (plḗrēs, “complete, full”) (from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁- (“to fill”)) + -όω (-óō, suffix forming verbs with the sense of making someone be or do something)) + -μᾰ (-ma, suffix forming nouns denoting the result or effect of an action).^[1]^[2] The plant genus was coined by the Scottish botanist David Don (1799–1841) in 1822 to describe the way the seeds of the plant filled the capsule.^[3]

Proper noun

Pleroma n

A taxonomic genus within the family Melastomataceae – certain tropical plants.
A taxonomic genus within the family Pleromidae – certain sea sponges.

Hypernyms

(genus in Melastomataceae): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Plantae – kingdom; Viridiplantae – subkingdom; Streptophyta – infrakingdom; Embryophyta – superphylum; Tracheophyta – phylum; Spermatophytina – subphylum; angiosperms, eudicots, core eudicots, rosids, malvids - clades; Myrtales - order; Melastomaceae - family; Melastomatoideae - subfamily; Melastomeae - tribe
(genus in Pleromidae): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Porifera – phylum; Demospongiae – class; Heteroscleromorpha - subclass; Tetractinellida - order; Astrophorina - suborder; Pleromidae - family

Hyponyms

(genus in Melastomataceae): Pleroma heteromallum (silverleafed princess flower) - type species; Pleroma gaudichaudianum - selected other species
(genus in Pleromidae): Pleroma turbinatum - type species; Pleroma aotea, Pleroma menoui, Pleroma torquilla - other species

References

^ Compare “pleroma, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, July 2023.
^ Compare “pleroma, n.”, in Collins English Dictionary.
^ David Don (1822 November 16) “XXIV.—An Illustration of the Natural Family of Plants called Melastomaceæ.”, in Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, volume IV, part II, Edinburgh: for Adam Black, ; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, published 1823, →OCLC, page 295: “Nomen duxi ab voce Græca πληρωμα, plenitudo, quòd loculi capsulæ placentis carnosis seminiferis farcti sunt. ― I took the name from the Greek word πληρωμα, fullness, as the loculi of the capsules are stuffed with fleshy seed-producing cakes.”