plethora
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-.
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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.