plena

See also: plêna

English

Etymology 1

Noun

plena (countable and uncountable, plural plenas)

1. (music, uncountable) A style of Puerto Rican music having a highly syncopated rhythm and often satirical lyrics
2. (music, countable) A song in this style

Etymology 2

Noun

plena

1. plural of plenum

Anagrams

• 'plane, Alpen, Nepal, Palen, Plean, palen, panel, penal, plane

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈplɛ.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈplə.nə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈple.na]

Etymology 1

Noun

plena f (plural plenes)

1. (castells) in a castell with three or five castellers per level, the column to the right of the rengla
2. (games) a game similar to bingo popular around Christmastime

   Synonyms: quina, quinto, rifla

Etymology 2

Adjective

plena f sg

1. feminine singular of ple

Czech

Alternative forms

• pléna, plína

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plěna, *pelena (“thin skin, thin fabric”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“skin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈplɛna]

Noun

plena f

1. diaper (US), nappy (UK)

   Synonym: plenka

Declension

Declension of plena (hard feminine)

	singular	plural
nominative	plena	pleny
genitive	pleny	plen
dative	pleně	plenám
accusative	plenu	pleny
vocative	pleno	pleny
locative	pleně	plenách
instrumental	plenou	plenami

Derived terms

• mozková plena
• plenčička
• plenečka
• plenka
• plénčička
• plénečka
• plénka
• plínčička
• plínečka
• plínka

 

Further reading

• “plena”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “plena”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “plena”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

Esperanto

Etymology

Compare Latin plēnārius, Catalan ple, French plein, Ido plena, Italian pieno, Portuguese cheio, Romanian plin, Sardinian prenu, Spanish lleno.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplena/

• Audio:

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• Hyphenation: ple‧na

Adjective

plena (accusative singular plenan, plural plenaj, accusative plural plenajn)

1. full, complete
   • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, Proverbaro Esperanta‎^[1]:

     De peko kaj mizero estas plena la tero.

     The earth is full of sin and misery.

Usage notes

-plena is used in many compounds to mean "full of", similar to the suffix -ful.

Antonyms

• malplena (“empty”)

Derived terms

• nuboplena (“overcast”)
• plenmano (“handful”)
• plenplena (“chock full”)

Ido

Etymology

Compare Catalan ple, Esperanto plena, French plein, Italian pieno, Portuguese cheio, Romanian plin, Sardinian prenu, Spanish lleno.

Adjective

plena

1. full

Antonyms

• vakua

Interlingua

Verb

plena

1. present of plenar
2. imperative of plenar

Latin

Adjective

plēna

1. inflection of plēnus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Adjective

plēnā

1. ablative feminine singular of plēnus

Portuguese

Adjective

plena

1. feminine singular of pleno

Spanish

Etymology 1

Adjective

plena

1. feminine singular of pleno

Etymology 2

Borrowed from French plaine.

Noun

plena f (plural plenas)

1. (Louisiana) a plain, pl. plains

Etymology 3

Uncertain, but often attributed as a folk etymology to an event at which an immigrant woman to Puerto Rico from the Lesser Antilles by the name of Ana or Anna, vigorously played a rhythm on a tambourine type instrument to shouts of "Play Anna! Play Anna!".

Noun

plena f (plural plenas)

1. (Caribbean Spanish) a type of music from the island of Puerto Rico featuring a characteristic rhythm played upon frame drums called panderetas
2. (by analogy, Panama) Dancehall music, Reggae en Español
3. (by extension, Panama) A song, especially one that is catchy and/or personally preferred by the listener; a jam, a tune.

Further reading

• “pleno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10