Wiktionary:Word of the day/2024/March 25

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Word of the day
for March 25
pleroma n
  1. (botany)
    1. A plant of the genus Pleroma.
    2. (archaic or obsolete, rare) Synonym of plerome (“the central portion of the apical meristem in a growing plant root or stem which, according to the histogen theory, gives rise to the endodermis and stele”)
  2. (Christianity) A state of perfect fullness, especially of God's being as incarnated in Jesus Christ.

pleroma proper n

  1. (Gnosticism, historical) Often preceded by the: the spiritual universe seen as the totality of the essence and powers of God.

As today is Εορτασμός της Ελληνικής Επανάστασης του 1821, the Celebration of the Greek Revolution of 1821, which marks the start of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire on this day in 1821 and is Greece’s Independence Day, we are featuring a word derived from Ancient Greek.

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