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Middle English
Etymology
From Old French plentiveus (“fertile, rich”), from plentif (“abundant”), from plenté (“abundance”), from Latin plenitatem, accusative of plenitas (“fullness”), from plenus (“complete, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”).
Adjective
plentevous
- plentiful, abundant
- Chaucer
- Withoute bake mete was nevere his hous,
Of fissh and flessh, and that so plentevous
It snewed in his hous of mete and drynke.
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