Oct. 8th, 2007

plethora

Oct. 8th, 2007 07:16 am
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plethora - n., an overabundance, excess.


Originally, from the 16th century, specifically an overabundance of blood -- it became a generic excess around 1700. From Greek plethore, fullness, from plethein, be full, at which point etylomogies like to cross-reference poly-.

---L.

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