pluri-
combining form
denoting several
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pluriliteral
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pluripresence
Origin
from Latin plūr-, plūs more, plūres severalpluri-a word element meaning 'several', 'many'.
[Latin, combining form of plūrēs, plural]pluri-
combining form
- several表示“几个”, “多个”：
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pluripotent.
词源
from Latin plus, plur- 'more'， plures 'several'.
1890 Cent. Dict. ,*Pluricapsular.
1895 in Syd.Soc. Lex.
1884 Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 61Among the branched forms,..those described under the unicellular hairs recur as *pluricellular.
1902 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 12 Apr. 908Cancers either started from one centre (unicentral or monocentral), or from many centres (multicentral or *plurocentral).
1880 Günther Fishes 194A jaw-like bar with *pluricuspid teeth.
1970 Guardian Weekly 14 May 12/1 The substitution of medium-sized *pluri-disciplinary universities for the existing monstrous faculties.
1972 Science 12 May 621/3 They would also be ‘pluridisciplinary’ which meant..that the universities would ‘associate wherever possible arts and letters with sciences and technics’.
1979 Guardian 12 June 8/7 This is a pluri-disciplinary show—which means that all the arts are being covered.
1890 Billings Nat. Med. Dict. ,*Plurifetation.
1973 Times 28 May 9/6 The remarks regarding churchmanship can only be described as naive; most Anglicans know their Church to be *pluriform.
1974 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Mar. 229/2To say that all religions are equally true amounts to saying that all are equally false. But are not some more equal than others? Or is there a case for saying that truth can be pluriform?
Ibid. 5 July 732/3The New Testament writings are to be seen as pluriform. They were not composed..to produce a volume on a theme previously agreed.
1975 Caribbean Contact Feb. 4/3 One effective way of developing a pluriform approach in the context of the many needs of any single community is through the team ministry approach.
1947 Theology L. 419 The *pluriformity of the churches is undoubtedly a sin of Christendom.
1975 Church Times 21 Feb. 14/2 No small part of his achievement has been the fundamental preservation of orthodoxy, despite the extensive adoption of pluriformity in forms of worship.
1976 Times 21 Feb. 15/6 We, like our Latin brothers, have come to accept pluriformity in belief as much as in cultural tradition.
1938 I. Goldberg Wonder of Words p. vii,It was the curiosity born of this *pluri-lingual heritage that led me..to..a special interest in language.
1956 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xxvi. 9Strictly speaking, a bilingual..is one who knows two languages, but will here (as commonly) be used to include also the one who knows more than two, variously known, as a plurilingual, a multilingual, or a polyglot.
1962 Y. Malkiel in Householder & Saporta Probl. Lexicogr. 11Pluri-lingual dictionaries, which patently mark an increase in coverage.
1976 Word 1971 XXVII. 407 The period of language ‘acquisition’ for plurilingual children is claimed to be longer than the period for monolingual children.
1971 Incorporated Linguist X. 42/1 Languages involved in societal systems of *plurilingualism tend to stabilize their roles on a basis of complementary distribution—either spatially, functionally, or both.
1828–32 Webster, *Pluriliteral . [ adj. andn. ]
1831 Lee Hebr. Gram. (1832) 221On these pluriliteral verbs . [ etc.]
1839 Pauli AnalectaHebr. xxviii. 209It does not belong to the province of this book to trace the Pluri-literals..to their original roots.
1819 Lindley tr. Richard'sObs. Fruits & Seeds 83Having the appearance of being *plurilocular, but proceeding from an unilocular ovarium.
1902 D. H. Campbell Univ. Text-bk. Bot. v. 129In many of the Phæosporeæ..there are formed the plurilocular sporangia.
1961 R. W. Butcher NewIllustr. Brit. Flora I. 19Sometimes several carpels..are united along the flat sides, so forming a plurilocular ovary of 2—many cells.
1969 F. E. Round Introd. Lower Plants iii. 44Plurilocular sporangia may also occur on the sporophyte.
1949 Wellek & Warren Theory ofLit. iii. 25The alternative to these seems some bi-modal or *pluri⁓modal truth.
1951 G. S. Carter Animal Evolution i. 26If for the specimens collected at one horizon we plot a variability curve.., the curve..should have an apex for each of the mixed populations (pluri-modal) if the population consists of distinct but mixed elements.
1976 Word 1971 XXVII. 195 Verbal expression, however, is only one facet of the plurimodal (multichannel) process of interpersonal communication.
1881 Times 12 Mar. 11/2 M. Gambetta..is thought to be anxious to return to the *plurinominal system of voting..while M. Grévy..adheres to the uninominal system.
Ibid. ,According to the alternative system of scrutin de liste, or plurinominal method of voting, the department is taken as the electoral unit.
188. Coues in Auk VI. 320 (Cent. Dict. )Perceiving sundry objections to binomial, etc., some have sought to obviate them by using binominal, uninominal, plurinominal, etc.
1887 Günther in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 190/1Small and *pluriserial on the upper parts of the body and tail, large and uniserial on the abdomen, and generally biserial on the lower side of the tail.
1884 Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 521In general so arranged that the sieve-tubes form single, biseriate, or *pluriseriate, tangential rows.
1924 J. S. Kenyon Amer. Pronunc. 30A *Plurisyllable is a word of more than one syllable.
1934 Webster 1897/3 Plurisyllable..plurisyllabic.
1965 Amer. Speech XL. 12There is also tsetse..and a fair number of other plurisyllables.
Ibid. 13Sclaff..is less well known than plurisyllabic sclerosis..and sclerotic.
1899 Nat. Sci. Dec. 389Professor Dietal..considers the question of their descent from one or more *plurivorous forms—forms, that is, which inhabited indifferently hosts belonging to the most different families of flowering plants.
pluri-
word-forming element meaning "more than one, several, many," from Latin pluri-, from stem of plus (genitive pluris); see plus.
ORIGIN: from Latin plur- , plus more, pl. plures several: see -i-
pluri-
combining form. having more than one _____; having many _____: Pluriaxial = having more than one axis.
[< Latin plūs, plūris more]
pluri-
combining form
Etymology: Latin, from plur-, plus more — more at plus
: many : having or being more than one : multi-
< pluriaxial >
< plurilocular >
< pluriaxial >
< plurilocular >
pluri-
Prefix
- several
Etymology
Latin, combining form of plūris, from plūs, from Old Latin *plous, from Proto-Indo-European *plē-, *pelu- (“many”). Related to plenty, plural (via Latin) and fele, full (via PIE).