Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#PLUSCategory:English terms derived from Latin#PLUS plūs (“more”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈplʌs/Category:English 1-syllable words#PLUSCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PLUS

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• (Southern US, fronting) IPA^(key): /ˈplɜs/, [ˈplɘ̞s]Category:English 1-syllable words#PLUSCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PLUS
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈplɐs/, [ˈpläs]Category:English 1-syllable words#PLUSCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PLUS
• (Northern England, Ireland, without the foot-strut split) IPA^(key): /ˈplʊs/Category:English 1-syllable words#PLUSCategory:English terms with IPA pronunciation#PLUS
• Rhymes: -ʌsCategory:Rhymes:English/ʌs#PLUSCategory:Rhymes:English/ʌs/1 syllable#PLUS
• Hyphenation: plus

Preposition

plusCategory:English lemmas#PLUSCategory:English prepositions#PLUSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. And; sum of the previous one and the following one.

   Two plus two equals four.Category:English terms with usage examples#PLUS

   A water molecule is made up of two hydrogen atoms plus one of oxygen.Category:English terms with usage examples#PLUS

2. (colloquialCategory:English colloquialisms#PLUS) With; having in addition.

   I've won a holiday to France plus five hundred euros in spending money!Category:English terms with usage examples#PLUS

Conjunction

plusCategory:English lemmas#PLUSCategory:English conjunctions#PLUSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. And also; in addition; besides (which).

   Let's go home now. It's late, plus I'm not feeling too well.Category:English terms with usage examples#PLUS

Noun

plus (plural pluses or plusses)Category:English lemmas#PLUSCategory:English nouns#PLUSCategory:English countable nouns#PLUSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. A positive quantity.
   • 2023 April 19, Pip Dunn, “Jack of all trades... and master of most”, in RAIL, number 981, page 57:

     But the pluses far outweigh the criticisms.

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2. An asset or useful addition.

   He is a real plus to the team.Category:English terms with usage examples#PLUS

   • 2000 July 6, N. R. Kleinfield, quoting Dog, “Guarding the Borders Of the Hip-Hop Nation”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, archived from the original on 20 April 2023:

     Look at Trife. He's got two felonies. That means he's finished in society. But he can rap. His two felonies, in rap, man, that's a plus.

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   • 2021 February 2, Katharine Murphy, “Scott Morrison must heed the lesson of Donald Trump and slap down Craig Kelly”, in The Guardian‎, archived from the original on 27 April 2021:

     When Morrison mulls the pluses and minuses associated with rebuking Kelly for undermining the government’s public health messaging, the prime minister faces a genuine substantive dilemma, and that goes to the risks of amplification.

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3. (arithmeticCategory:en:Arithmetic#PLUS) A plus sign: +.
4. Abbreviation of LGBT+Category:English abbreviations#PLUS

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)Category:Requests for example sentences in English#PLUS

Adjective

plus (not comparable)Category:English lemmas#PLUSCategory:English adjectives#PLUSCategory:English uncomparable adjectives#PLUSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. Being positive rather than negative or zero.

   −2 * −2 = +4 ("minus 2 times minus 2 equals plus four")

2. Positive, or involving advantage.

   He is a plus factor.Category:English terms with usage examples#PLUS

3. (physicsCategory:en:Physics#PLUS) Electrically positive.

   A battery has both a plus pole and a minus pole.Category:English terms with usage examples#PLUS

4. (postpositive, somewhat informalCategory:English informal terms#PLUS) (Of a quantity) Equal to or greater than; or more; upwards.

   The bus can fit 60 plus kids, but we only get 48.Category:English terms with usage examples#PLUS

5. (postpostitive, informalCategory:English informal terms#PLUS) And more.
   • 1985 August 10, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 13, number 5, page 13:

     Have you been to Brazil, Bhutan, or Botswana? Well, I haven't and I'm reday ^[sic] to go ― almost anywhere interesting actually. Warm, wise world traveler seeks equally exciting, self-sufficient soul for adventures plus.

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Verb

plus (third-person singular simple present pluss or plusses, present participle plusing or plussing, simple past and past participle plused or plussed)Category:English lemmas#PLUSCategory:English verbs#PLUSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. (informalCategory:English informal terms#PLUS) To add; to subject to addition.
   • 1973, Australian Council for Educational Research, ACER research series - Issues 93-95, page 39:

     For him y is a unique number, like 7, but for the time being unknown — if one does the operation of 'plussing 4' one still has, as a result, a unique number even though one does not yet know what it is.

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   • 1974, Control of Human Behavior: Behavior modification in education:

     The teacher observing the behavior of a child who is plussing or not-plussing is observing instances or not-instances of the concept of plussing.

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2. (often followed by 'up') To increase in magnitude.
   • 2006, Danny Fingeroth, Mike Manley, How to Create Comics: From Script to Print, →ISBN, page 48:

     I am doing a lot of writing here, plussing the script, adding sequences.

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   • 2009, United States Congress House Committee on Homeland Security, The Direction and Viability of the Federal Protective Service:

     We are losing at the street level a number of officers, but we are plussing up deputy positions.

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   • 2012, United States Congress House Committee on Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, Military Retirement Reform, page 24:

     And I believe that, if we can't recognize that in retirement, we ought to recognize it in plussing up hazardous duty pay, plussing up sea duty pay and all those other things that recognize people that don't punch out on Saturday, on Friday afternoon and go home, and just, you know, go day after day after day.

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3. To improve.
   • 1998, Nate Booth, Strategies for Fast-Changing Times, →ISBN, page 91:

     Coach Wooden didn't have to depend upon having the most talented players on his team because he could depend upon plussing to constantly make everyone better.

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   • 2007, Howard Hendricks, Color Outside the Lines, →ISBN, page 123:

     Keep fooling around with it, improving it, and making it better. You know you have a unique factor when someone steals it. So keep the unique factor unique by constantly plussing it.

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   • 2004, Pat Williams, Jim Denney, How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life, →ISBN, page 154:

     He was a pioneer in plussing the artform of animated cartoons. He began by plussing Micky Mouse with sound, the plussing the Silly Symphonies with color. Walt plussed the skills of his artists by sending them to art school at his own expense.

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4. To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.
   • 2013, David Burkus, The Myths of Creativity, →ISBN:

     The animators and directors on the receiving end of the plussing don't necessarily have to accept and incorporate the feedback, but plussing provides a method to share criticisms in a way that makes it more likely that they will.

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   • 2014, Steven Krupp, Paul J.H. Schoemaker, Winning the Long Game: How Strategic Leaders Shape the Future, →ISBN:

     Strategic leaders can adapt the US Army's after-action review and Pixar's plussing technique (where you build on ideas rather than critique and subtract) to show their teams how to learn from mistakes.

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   • 2014, BusinessNews Publishing, Summary : Little Bets - Peter Sims, →ISBN:

     When people view the early drafts of ideas for their movies under development, they always use plussing to try and come up with suggestions for enhancements. Feedback is always given in an upbeat rather than a derogatory manner.

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5. (sales) To sell additional related items with an original purchase.
   • 1920, The Current Business Cyclopedia: Business Digest:

     Good will is also secured by plussing the original purchase with another article that goes appropriately with it.

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   • 1986, Max Fallek, How to Set Up and Operate Your Own Law Practice:

     Plussing the original sale creates a win-win situation. The customer benefits because it often saves him the time necessary to run back to the store for overlooked items.

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6. (psychologyCategory:en:Psychology#PLUS) To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.
   • 1979, Douglas A. Puryear, Helping People in Crisis, page 87:

     Plussing is a technique for enhancing a positive atmosphere in the session, for diminishing hostility, and for raising self-esteem.

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   • 1997, Bernard L. Bloom, Planned short-term psychotherapy: a clinical handbook, page 187:

     In addition to active listening as a general therapeutic strategy, Puryear identifies two specific techniques, plussing and paradox, that are used throughout the crisis intervention.

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   • 2015, Kenneth France, Crisis Intervention, →ISBN, page 177:

     When plussing, the intervenor introduces novel viewpoints that can increase the self-esteem of both the attacker and the target.

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7. (social mediaCategory:en:Social media#PLUS, datedCategory:English dated terms#PLUS) To give a mark of approval on Google+.

   Coordinate term: like

   • 2012, Lee Odden, Optimize, →ISBN, page 111:

     How do you get others to add you or your brand to their circles? By creating and sharing useful content, commenting, plussing others' content and comments, and engaging with others on Google+.

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   • 2014, Ed Catmull, Creativity, Inc., →ISBN, page 279:

     Everyone was plussing them or liking them or pinning them. The videos went viral.

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8. (homeopathyCategory:en:Homeopathy#PLUS) To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.
   • 2005, B. Sahni, Transmission of Homoeo Drug Energy from Distance, →ISBN, page 188:

     On hearing this, plussing was done (all medicated water of the phial was thrown away and fresh distilled was added and 10 strokes were given) on the 13th February 1974.

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   • 2007, Kate Birch, Vaccine Free Prevention and Treatment of Infectious Contagious Disease with Homeopathy, →ISBN:

     From the remaining water a second dilution can be prepared plussing it to the next slightly higher potency.

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   • 2011, Kim Lane, Homeopathy for Home: Acute Illness & Injury Care, →ISBN, page 29:

     Plussing is used quite frequently in a patient who's quite sensitive or has an acute problem happening or needs to change his dose or need to take it over several days.

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9. (optometry) To increase a correction.
   • 1976, David M. Worthen, Perry S. Binder, The intraocular lens in perspective, →ISBN, page 2:

     No aspheric cataract spectacle lens designer has ever given the slightest thought to this 4 to 6 diopters of over-plussing for peripheral vision which is responsible for tremendous peripheral distortion, worse peripheral swim, worse false orientation, worse magnification, severe concave curvature of field ("The floor comes up at you"), increased ring scotoma size and increase jack-in-the-box phenomenon (the "horse-blinder effect") with unsafe walking and driving.

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Derived terms

See also

• add
• addition
• times

Anagrams

• ULSP, LPUs, LPUS, ULPs, puls, ulps

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈplus]Category:Czech terms with IPA pronunciation#PLUS

Conjunction

plusCategory:Czech lemmas#PLUSCategory:Czech conjunctions#PLUSCategory:Czech entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. plus

   Antonym: minus

   Dva plus dva je čtyři. ― Two plus two equals four.Category:Czech terms with usage examples#PLUS

Noun

plus m inan or nCategory:Czech lemmas#PLUSCategory:Czech nouns#PLUSCategory:Czech entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Czech masculine nouns#PLUSCategory:Czech inanimate nouns#PLUSCategory:Czech neuter nouns#PLUSCategory:Czech nouns with multiple genders#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. plus

Related terms

Further reading

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

Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:Dutch terms borrowed from Latin#PLUSCategory:Dutch terms derived from Latin#PLUS plūs (“more”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plʏs/Category:Dutch terms with IPA pronunciation#PLUS

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• Hyphenation: plus
• Rhymes: -ʏsCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ʏs#PLUSCategory:Rhymes:Dutch/ʏs/1 syllable#PLUS

Preposition

plusCategory:Dutch lemmas#PLUSCategory:Dutch prepositions#PLUSCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. (arithmeticCategory:nl:Arithmetic#PLUS) plus

   Synonym: en

   Antonyms: min, minus

   Twee plus twee is vier. ― Two plus two is four.Category:Dutch terms with usage examples#PLUS

2. plus (having in addition)

   Synonym: en

   Antonym: minus

Noun

plus m (plural plussen, diminutive plusje n)Category:Dutch lemmas#PLUSCategory:Dutch nouns#PLUSCategory:Dutch nouns with plural in -en#PLUSCategory:Dutch nouns with red links in their headword lines#PLUSCategory:Dutch entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Dutch masculine nouns#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. plus sign; +

   Synonym: plusteken

2. plus, advantage

   Synonym: pluspunt

   Antonyms: min, minus

Etymology

Ultimately from LatinCategory:Esperanto terms derived from Latin#PLUS plūs (“more”). Doublet of pli and pluCategory:Esperanto doublets#PLUS.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plus/Category:Esperanto 1-syllable words#PLUSCategory:Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation#PLUS

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• Rhymes: -usCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/us#PLUSCategory:Rhymes:Esperanto/us/1 syllable#PLUS
• Syllabification: plus

Preposition

plusCategory:Esperanto lemmas#PLUSCategory:Esperanto prepositions#PLUSCategory:Esperanto entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. plus

   Antonym: minus

   Du plus du egalas kvar. ― Two plus two equals four.Category:Esperanto terms with usage examples#PLUS

Further reading

• “plus”, in Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto [Complete Illustrated Dictionary of Esperanto], 2020, →ISBN
• “plus”, in Reta Vortaro [Online Dictionary] (in Esperanto), 1997-2026

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Finnish terms derived from Latin#PLUS plūs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplus/, [ˈplus̠]Category:Finnish 1-syllable words#PLUSCategory:Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation#PLUS
• Rhymes: -usCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/us#PLUSCategory:Rhymes:Finnish/us/1 syllable#PLUS
• Syllabification^(key): plus
• Hyphenation^(key): plus

Conjunction

plusCategory:Finnish lemmas#PLUSCategory:Finnish conjunctions#PLUSCategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. plus

   Synonym: (conjunction) ynnä

   Antonym: miinus

Adjective

plusCategory:Finnish lemmas#PLUSCategory:Finnish adjectives#PLUSCategory:Finnish entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS (not inflected)

1. plus

   Antonym: miinus

Further reading

• “plus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle FrenchCategory:French terms inherited from Middle French#PLUSCategory:French terms derived from Middle French#PLUS plus, from Old FrenchCategory:French terms derived from Old French#PLUS plus.

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Further reading

• “plus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Pronunciation

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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  Category:German terms with audio pronunciation#PLUS

Adverb

plusCategory:German lemmas#PLUSCategory:German adverbs#PLUSCategory:German entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. plus, increased by

   Synonyms: mehr, und

   Antonym: minus

   Vier plus eins ergibt fünf. ― 4+1=5Category:German terms with usage examples#PLUS

See also

• Plus

Adverb

plus (not comparable)Category:Interlingua lemmas#PLUSCategory:Interlingua adverbs#PLUSCategory:Interlingua entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. more (used to form comparatives)

le plus

1. the most (used to form superlatives)

Etymology

From Old LatinCategory:Latin terms derived from Old Latin#PLUS plous, from Proto-ItalicCategory:Latin terms inherited from Proto-Italic#PLUSCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Italic#PLUS *plēōs (after being levelled in favour of the neuter *plowis), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#PLUS *pleh₁-, *pelh₁u- (“many”). Cognate with Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many”), Old English feolo (“much, many”). More at fele. The adverb is an adverbial accusativeCategory:Latin adverbial accusatives#PLUS.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɫuːs]Category:Latin 1-syllable words#PLUSCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#PLUS
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈplus]Category:Latin 1-syllable words#PLUSCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#PLUS

Adjective

plūs (comparative, neuter plūs)Category:Latin non-lemma forms#PLUSCategory:Latin comparative adjectives#PLUSCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS; third declension

1. comparative degree of multus (“many”)Category:Latin comparative adjectives#PLUS
   1. (in the plural) more (in quantity)

      Antonyms: paucior, minus multus

      • 165 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Hecyra 281:

        Nemini plura acerba credo esse ex amore homini umquam oblata / quam mi.

        • 2001 translation by John Barsby

          I don't believe anyone has ever had more anguish inflicted on him by love than I have.

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      • 16 BCE, Ovidius, Amores 3.6.63-64:

        Ilia, pone metus! / tu centum aut plures inter dominabere nymphas; / nam centum aut plures flumina nostra tenent.

        • 1914 translation by Grant Showerman, revised by G. P. Goold

          Ilia, lay aside thy fears! Thou shalt be mistress among a hundred nymphs, or more; for a hundred, or more, are the nymphs that dwell in my stream.

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   2. (in the plural) several, many
      • c. 4 BCE – 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium 1.2.5:

        Hoc ipse quoque faciō: ex plūribus quae lēgī, aliquid apprehendō.

        This I myself also do: from the many [things] which I have read, I obtain something [to reflect upon].

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      • c. 56 CE – 117 CE, Tacitus, Annals 3.34.25:

        Vix praesenti custodia manere inlaesa coniugia: quid fore si per pluris annos in modum discidii oblitterentur?

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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      • 23 BCE – 13 BCE, Horatius, Carmina 1.11, (5th Asclepiad):

        Seu plūrīs hiemēs seu tribuit Juppiter ultimam,
        quae nunc oppositīs dēbilitat pūmicibus mare
        Tyrrhēnum, sapiās, vīna liquēs et spatiō brevī
        spem longam resecēs.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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   3. (in the singular, New LatinCategory:New Latin#PLUS) more, additional

      Synonym: largior

      • 1618, Isaac Beeckman, Journal, page 106 recto; quoted in Charles Adam and Paul Tannery, Œuvres de Descartes, Paris: Léopold Cerf, 1908, page 221, footnote c:

        Eodem modo quo spatium multiplicatur, etiam impedimentum multiplicatur, si intelligas in aere vel aqua, id est in pleno, quicquam cadere. Res enim cadens descibit figuram oblongam, lineis omnibus parallelam; cùm res secundâ horâ velocius cadit, plusque spacij percurrat, ea est proportio figuræ quam primâ horâ describit ad eam quam describit secundâ horâ, ut spacium primâ horâ peragratum ad secundâ horâ peragratum. Si igitur res cadens ab impedimento non impediretur, tanto pluri aeri secundâ horâ occurreret, quanto majus est secundæ horæ paralelipipedum, quàm primæ horæ.

        (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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      • 1764, Francisco Puente, Ars Hippocratica, vel Hippocrates Extractus a Practico Celtibero, page 20:

        Sudor multus ex somno factus sine causa manifesta, corpus uti plure cibo significat; si autem non, evacuatione indiget.

        Much sweat made in sleep without a clear cause means that the body uses more food; but if not, it needs evacuation.

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Pronoun

plūs (neuter plūs)Category:Latin lemmas#PLUSCategory:Latin pronouns#PLUSCategory:Latin third declension pronouns#PLUSCategory:Latin third declension pronouns of one termination#PLUSCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS; third-declension neuter pronoun

1. more; more of

   Synonym: amplius

   Antonym: minus

   • 84 BCE, Cicero, De inventione 1.88:

     "Cum dicebas: Si indigetis pecuniae, pecuniam non habetis, hoc intellegebam: Si propter inopiam in egestate estis, pecuniam non habetis, et idcirco concedebam; cum autem hoc sumebas: Indigetis autem pecuniae, illud accipiebam: Vultis autem pecuniae plus habere. Ex quibus concessionibus non conficitur hoc: Pauperes igitur estis; conficeretur autem, si tibi primo quoque hoc concessissem, qui pecuniam maiorem vellet habere, eum pecuniam non habere."

     • 1949 translation by H. M. Hubbell

       "When you said, 'If you want money, you do not have money,' I understood it to mean, 'If on account of poverty you are in extreme want, you do not have money,' and therefore I granted the point; when, however, you said, 'You do want money,' I took that to mean 'You do want to have more money.' From this admission it does not follow that you are poor. It would follow, if at first I had made this admission also, 'Whoever wishes to have more money, does not have money.'"

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   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 7.41:

     Itaque cum hoc unum propter Salonium ab senatu non impetraretur, tum Salonius obtestatus patres conscriptos ne suum honorem pluris quam concordiam civitatis aestimarent, perpulit ut id quoque ferretur.

     • 1924 translation by B. O. Foster

       And so, when this one provision would have failed of enactment by the senate, out of consideration for Salonius, he himself besought the Fathers not to think more highly of his distinction than of harmony in the state, and induced them to pass this also.

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   • 4 CE – c. 70 CE, Columella, De Arboribus 10.4.6:

     Sed quaecumque in clivis erunt positae, ita ablaqueandae sunt, ut a superiore parte secundum codicem lacusculi fiant, ab inferiore autem pulvilli altiores excitentur, quo plus aquae limique contineant.

     • 1955 translation by E. S. Forster, Edward H. Heffner

       But any vines which are planted on slopes must be trenched in such a way that pools may be formed on the higher ground next the stem, and ridges raised to a greater height on the lower ground, so as to contain more water and mud.

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   • 1271 – 1272, Thomas Aquinas, In decem libros Ethicorum expositio book 8.lectio 13.n. 7:

     Illi enim qui utuntur se invicem ad utilitatem, semper pluri indigent quam eis detur, et existimant quod minus recipiant quam eis conveniat.

     For those who use each other for benefit always want more than is given to them, and think that they receive less than is suitable for them.

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Adverb

plūs (comparative)Category:Latin non-lemma forms#PLUSCategory:Latin comparative adverbs#PLUSCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. comparative degree of multō (“by much, by far”)Category:Latin comparative adverbs#PLUS: further (more in extent)

   Synonym: magis (magis indicates more in degree')

   Plus ultra! = "Further beyond!" (this is the national motto of Spain)

See also

• plērus

References

Further reading

• “multus” in volume 8, column 1606, line 32 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• “plus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “plus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "plus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “plus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • twenty years and more: viginti anni et amplius, aut plus
    
  • one, two, several days had passed, intervened: dies unus, alter, plures intercesserant
    
  • to expend great labour on a thing: egregiam operam (multum, plus etc. operae) dare alicui rei
    
  • to discuss a subject more fully on the same lines: plura in eam sententiam disputare
    
  • to give a full, detailed account of a thing: pluribus verbis, copiosius explicare, persequi aliquid
    
  • to possess great political insight: plus in re publica videre
    
  • to say nothing further on..: ut plura non dicam
    
  • in short; to be brief: ne multa, quid plura? sed quid opus est plura?
    
  • more of this another time: sed de hoc alias pluribus
    

  Category:Latin words in Meissner and Auden's phrasebook

Alternative forms

• plꝰ (abbreviation)

Etymology

Inherited from Old FrenchCategory:Middle French terms inherited from Old French#PLUSCategory:Middle French terms derived from Old French#PLUS plus, from LatinCategory:Middle French terms derived from Latin#PLUS plūs.

Adverb

plusCategory:Middle French lemmas#PLUSCategory:Middle French adverbs#PLUSCategory:Middle French entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. more

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Old French terms inherited from Latin#PLUSCategory:Old French terms derived from Latin#PLUS plūs.

Adverb

plusCategory:Old French lemmas#PLUSCategory:Old French adverbs#PLUSCategory:Old French entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. (with de) more than

Etymology

From LatinCategory:Old Occitan terms inherited from Latin#PLUSCategory:Old Occitan terms derived from Latin#PLUS plūs.

Adverb

plusCategory:Old Occitan lemmas#PLUSCategory:Old Occitan adverbs#PLUSCategory:Old Occitan entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. more
   • 12th century,. Bernard de Ventadour, Lancan folhon bosc e jarric

     ome de me no vei plus ric

     I do not see a richer [more rich] than me

     Category:Old Occitan terms with quotations#PLUS

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplus/Category:Polish 1-syllable words#PLUSCategory:Polish terms with IPA pronunciation#PLUS

• Audio:

  (file)

  Category:Polish terms with audio pronunciation#PLUS
• Rhymes: -usCategory:Rhymes:Polish/us#PLUSCategory:Rhymes:Polish/us/1 syllable#PLUS
• Syllabification: plus

Noun

plus m inanCategory:Polish lemmas#PLUSCategory:Polish nouns#PLUSCategory:Polish entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Polish masculine nouns#PLUSCategory:Polish inanimate nouns#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. plus, plus sign

   Antonym: minus

Further reading

• plus in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• plus in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:Romanian terms borrowed from Latin#PLUSCategory:Romanian terms derived from Latin#PLUS plūs. First attested in the early 19th century, acquiring non-mathematical senses by the middle of that century.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplus/Category:Romanian terms with IPA pronunciation#PLUS
• Rhymes: -usCategory:Rhymes:Romanian/us#PLUSCategory:Rhymes:Romanian/us/1 syllable#PLUS

Conjunction

plusCategory:Romanian lemmas#PLUSCategory:Romanian conjunctions#PLUSCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. plus, and

Noun

plus n (plural plusuri)Category:Romanian lemmas#PLUSCategory:Romanian nouns#PLUSCategory:Romanian nouns with red links in their headword lines#PLUSCategory:Romanian countable nouns#PLUSCategory:Romanian entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Romanian neuter nouns#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. plus, addition, extra, surplus

Further reading

• “plus”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026
• Iorgu Iordan, Alexandru Graur, Ion Coteanu, editors (1977), Dicționarul Limbii Române‎, volume 8, part 3, Bucharest: Academy of the Socialist Republic of Romania, page 875

Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:Spanish terms borrowed from Latin#PLUSCategory:Spanish terms derived from Latin#PLUS plūs (“more”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplus/ [ˈplus]Category:Spanish 1-syllable words#PLUSCategory:Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation#PLUS
• Rhymes: -usCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/us#PLUSCategory:Rhymes:Spanish/us/1 syllable#PLUS
• Syllabification: plus

Noun

plus m (plural pluses)Category:Spanish lemmas#PLUSCategory:Spanish nouns#PLUSCategory:Spanish countable nouns#PLUSCategory:Spanish entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Spanish masculine nouns#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. bonus (extra earnings)
2. plus (addition to what is considered habitual)

Further reading

• “plus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Conjunction

plusCategory:Swedish lemmas#PLUSCategory:Swedish conjunctions#PLUSCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. (mathematicsCategory:sv:Mathematics#PLUS) and, plus

Noun

plus nCategory:Swedish lemmas#PLUSCategory:Swedish nouns#PLUSCategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#PLUSCategory:Swedish neuter nouns#PLUSCategory:Pages with entries#PLUSCategory:Pages with 16 entries#PLUS

1. plus sign
2. benefit, advantage

Derived terms

• plussa