plus
French
adv
Definitions
- more, -er used to form comparatives of adjectives
- more, -er used to form comparatives of adverbs
- (after a verb) more, -er indicating a higher degree or quantity
- (before a noun) more indicating a greater quantity, followed by l
- more supplementary, preceded by l
- (preceded by a definite article) the most, -est used to form superlatives of adjectives and adverbs
- (usually with the negative particle l) no longer, not ... any more
Etymology
Inherited from Old French plus inherited from Latin plus (more) inherited from Old Latin *plous derived from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₁-, *pelh₁u- (many).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*pleh₁-, *pelh₁u-
Gloss
many
Concept
Semantic Field
Quantity
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
多
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- pluperfect tense English
- plus English
- superplus English
- duplus Latin
- pluri- Latin
- pluries Latin
- plus Latin
- plūs Latin
- perlopiù Italian
- piuccheperfetto Italian
- più Italian
- soprappiù Italian
- sovrappiù Italian
- surplus Italian
- part French
- plupart French
- plutôt French
- surplus French
- tôt French
- *pelh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *pleh₁-, *pelh₁u- Proto-Indo-European
- *ploh₁is- Proto-Indo-European
- *plē- Proto-Indo-European
- *ters- Proto-Indo-European
- pluss Norwegian Bokmål
- pluss Norwegian Nynorsk
- plus Old French
- plús Icelandic
- plus Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- plu Ido
- plualtigar Ido
- plubeligar Ido
- plubonigar Ido
- plucherigar Ido
- pludensigar Ido
- pludolcigar Ido
- plufermigar Ido
- plufortigar Ido
- plufreshigar Ido
- plumaligar Ido
- pus Norman
- surplus Middle French
- pli Romansh
- plus Old Occitan
- cchiù Sicilian
- chiù Sicilian
- plu Volapük
- ple Dalmatian
- plis Haitian, Haitian Creole
- pli Mauritian Creole
- plis Mauritian Creole
- cchiù Neapolitan
- chiù Neapolitan
- *plous Old Latin