Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗prefix
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn intensifying prefix, roughly equivalent to more or very.
From plus, from Latin plūs (“more”). Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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- Derivation mentionplūsla
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