different between plea vs plena

English

Etymology

From Middle English ple, from Old French plait, plaid, from Medieval Latin placitum (“a decree, sentence, suit, plea, etc., Latin an opinion, determination, prescription, order; literally, that which is pleasing, pleasure”), neuter of placitus, past participle of placere (“to please”). Cognate with Spanish pleito (“lawsuit, suit”). Doublet of placit and placate. See also please, pleasure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pli?/
• Rhymes: -i?

Noun

plea (plural pleas)

1. An appeal, petition, urgent prayer or entreaty.

   a plea for mercy

2. An excuse; an apology.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost IV.393

     Necessity, the tyrant’s plea.
3. That which is alleged or pleaded, in defense or in justification.
4. (law) That which is alleged by a party in support of his cause.
5. (law) An allegation of fact in a cause, as distinguished from a demurrer.
6. (law) The defendant’s answer to the plaintiff’s declaration and demand.
7. (law) A cause in court; a lawsuit; as, the Court of Common Pleas.
   • 1782, "An Act establishing a Supreme Judicial Court within the Commonwealth", quoted in The Constitutional History of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Frank Washburn Grinnell, 1917, page 434

     they or any three of them shall be a Court and have cognizance of pleas real, personal, and mixed.

Usage notes

In 19th-century U.K. law, that which the plaintiff alleges in his declaration is answered and repelled or justified by the defendant’s plea. In chancery practice, a plea is a special answer showing or relying upon one or more things as a cause why the suit should be either dismissed, delayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant’s formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him/her.

Related terms

• pleas of the crown
• plead
• pleasant
• please
• pleasurable
• pleasure

Synonyms

• plaidoyer

Translations

Verb

plea (third-person singular simple present pleas, present participle pleaing, simple past and past participle pleaed)

1. (chiefly England regional, Scotland) To plead; to argue. [from 15th c.]
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     With my riches, my unhappiness was increased tenfold; and here, with another great acquisition of property, for which I had pleaed, and which I had gained in a dream, my miseries and difficulties were increasing.

Further reading

• plea in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• plea in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• plea at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Alep, LEAP, Lape, Leap, Peal, e-pal, leap, pale, pale-, peal, pela

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, palen, panel, penal, plane

Catalan

Adjective

plena f sg

1. feminine singular of ple

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

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *pl?na, *pelena (“thin skin, thin fabric”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“skin”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pl?na/

Noun

plena f

1. diaper (US), nappy (UK)

Declension

Synonyms

• plenka f

References

Further reading

• plena in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• plena in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Esperanto

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?plena/
• Hyphenation: ple?na

Adjective

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

1. full, complete
   • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, "Proverbaro Esperanta":

     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

pl?na

1. nominative feminine singular of pl?nus
2. nominative neuter plural of pl?nus
3. accusative neuter plural of pl?nus
4. vocative feminine singular of pl?nus
5. vocative neuter plural of pl?nus

Adjective

pl?n?

1. ablative feminine singular of pl?nus

Portuguese

Adjective

plena

1. feminine singular of pleno

Spanish

Etymology 1

Adjective

plena

1. feminine singular of pleno

Etymology 2

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. (Carribean Spanish) a type of music from the island of Puerto Rico featuring a characteristic rhythm played upon frame drums called panderetas