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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plus (“more”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?s/
• Rhymes: -?s

Preposition

plus

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

   Two plus two equals four.

   A water molecule is made up of two hydrogen atoms plus one of oxygen.

2. (colloquial) With; having in addition.

   I've won a holiday to France plus five hundred euros in spending money!

Synonyms

• and

Antonyms

• minus

Derived terms

• plus fours
• plus sign
• sex-plus

Translations

Conjunction

plus

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

   Let's go home now. It's late, plus I'm not feeling too well.

Noun

plus (plural pluses or plusses)

1. A positive quantity.
2. An asset or useful addition.

   He is a real plus to the team.

3. (arithmetic) A plus sign: +.

Synonyms

• (useful addition): asset
• (arithmetic: plus sign): plus sign

Antonyms

• (useful addition): liability, minus
• (arithmetic: plus sign): minus, minus sign

Translations

Adjective

plus (not comparable)

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.

3. (physics) Electrically positive.

   A battery has both a plus pole and a minus pole.

4. (postpositive) (Of a quantity) Equal to or greater than; or more; upwards.

   The bus can fit 60 plus kids, but we only get 48.

Synonyms

• (being positive rather than negative or zero): positive
• (positive, involving advantage): advantageous, good, positive

Antonyms

• (being positive rather than negative or zero): minus, negative
• (positive, involving advantage): bad, disadvantageous, minus, negative

Derived terms

• (positive, involving advantage):
  • on the plus side

Translations

Verb

plus (third-person singular simple present pluses or plusses, present participle plusing or plussing, simple past and past participle plused or plussed)

1. (informal) To add; to subject to addition.
2. (often followed by 'up') To increase in magnitude.
3. To improve.
4. To provide critical feedback by giving suggestions for improvement rather than criticisms.
5. (sales) To sell additional related items with an original purchase.
6. (psychology) To frame in a positive light; to provide a sympathetic interpretation.
7. (social media) To give a mark of approval on Google+.
8. (homeopathy) To increase the potency of a remedy by diluting it in water and stirring.
9. (optometry) To increase a correction.

See also

• add
• addition
• times

Anagrams

• LPUS, ULPs, puls, ulps

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?plus]

Conjunction

plus

1. plus

Antonyms

• minus

Noun

plus m

1. plus

Related terms

• plurál
• pluralismus
• pluralista
• pluralistický
• pluralita

Further reading

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

Esperanto

Pronunciation

Conjunction

plus

1. plus

   Du plus du faras kvar.

   Two plus two makes four.

Antonyms

• minus

Finnish

Conjunction

plus

1. plus

Synonyms

• (plus): ynnä (archaic)

Antonyms

• (plus): miinus

Derived terms

• plusmerkkinen
• plussa

French

Etymology 1

From Old French plus, from Latin plus, from Old Latin *plous, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?-, *pelh?u- (“many”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ply/ in its positive sense if followed by an adjective or an adverb not beginning with a vowel, and always in its negative sense (e.g. il est plus grand que moi, or je n'en peux plus)
• IPA^(key): /plyz?/ in the case of a liaison, i.e. if followed by an adjective or an adverb beginning with a vowel (e.g. tu dois être plus ambitieux)
• IPA^(key): /plys/ in its positive sense, when not followed by an adjective or an adverb (e.g. j'en ai plus que toi or avancez un peu plus, s'il vous plait)
• (Quebec, informal) IPA^(key): /py/ in its negative sense.

Adverb

plus

1. more, -er (used to form comparatives of adjectives)

2. more, -er (used to form comparatives of adverbs)

3. (after a verb) more, -er (indicating a higher degree or quantity)

4. (before a noun) more (indicating a greater quantity; followed by de)

5. more (supplementary, preceded by de)

6. (preceded by a definite article) the most, -est (used to form superlatives of adjectives and adverbs)

8. (usually with the negative particle ne, see usage notes below) no longer, not ... any more

Usage notes

• There may be some difficulty for non-native speakers to detect the negativity or positivity of "plus". The negative sense is generally used with a ne, but sometimes the "ne" is dropped in colloquial speech. Thus in certain cases, some speakers may choose to pronounce the final /s/ of a positive plus (as /plys/) in order to make a distinction.

Derived terms

Noun

plus m (plural plus)

1. plus, the symbol +

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ply/

Verb

plus

1. first/second-person singular past historic of plaire

Participle

plus

1. (obsolete) masculine plural of the past participle of plaire

Usage notes

• In modern French, the past participle of plaire is always invariable, because it is always intransitive.

Further reading

• “plus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

German

Pronunciation

Adverb

plus

1. plus, increased by

Synonyms

• mehr
• und

Antonyms

• minus

See also

• Plus

Interlingua

Adverb

plus (not comparable)

1. more (used to form comparatives)

le plus

1. the most (used to form superlatives)

Antonyms

• minus

Latin

Etymology

From Old Latin plous, from Proto-Italic *plous, from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?-, *pelh?u- (“many”). Cognate with Ancient Greek ????? (polús, “many”), Old English feolo (“much, many”). More at fele.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /plu?s/, [p??u?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /plus/, [plus]

Adjective

pl?s (neuter pl?s, positive multus); third declension

1. (more in quantity) more, additionally

   Synonym: magis (magis indicates more in degree)

2. (more in extent) further

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

Declension

Irregular third-declension comparative adjective.

Note: Singular forms take the genitive of the whole and do not function as adjectives.

Derived terms

• compl?r?s
• pl?r?lis
• pl?rif?rmis
• pl?rimus
• pl?sculus

Descendants

References

• 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• plus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.

Old French

Etymology

From Latin plus.

Adverb

plus

1. (with de) more than

Descendants

• French: plus
• Norman: pus (Jersey)

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin plus.

Adjective

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

Descendants

• Catalan: plus (archaic)
• Occitan: pus, pu, plus

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plus/

Noun

plus m inan

1. plus, plus sign

Declension

Antonyms

• minus

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plus (19th century).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plus/

Conjunction

plus

1. plus, and

Synonyms

• ?i

Noun

plus n (plural plusuri)

1. plus, addition, extra, surplus

Derived terms

• plusa

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin plus (“more”).

Noun

plus m (plural plus)

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

Swedish

Conjunction

plus

1. (mathematics) and, plus

Noun

plus n

1. plus sign
2. benefit, advantage

Declension

Derived terms

• plussa

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: l?p, IPA^(key): /li?p/
• Rhymes: -i?p

Etymology 1

From Middle English lepen, from Old English hl?apan, from Proto-Germanic *hlaupan?. Cognate with West Frisian ljeppe (“to jump”), Dutch lopen (“to run; to walk”), German laufen (“to run; to walk”), Danish løbe, Norwegian Bokmål løpe, from Proto-Indo-European *klewb- (“to spring, stumble”) (compare Lithuanian šlùbti ‘to become lame’, klùbti ‘to stumble’).

Verb

leap (third-person singular simple present leaps, present participle leaping, simple past leaped or leapt or (archaic) lept or (archaic) lope, past participle leaped or leapt or (archaic) lopen)

1. (intransitive) To jump.
   • c. 1450, anonymous, Merlin

     It is grete nede a man to go bak to recouer the better his leep

   • 1600, anonymous, The wisdome of Doctor Dodypoll, act 4

     I, I defie thee: wert not thou next him when he leapt into the Riuer?

   • 1783, Hugh Blair, from the “Illiad” in Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres, lecture 4, page 65

     Th’ infernal monarch rear’d his horrid head, Leapt from his throne, lest Neptune’s arm should lay His dark dominions open to the day.

   • 1999, Ai, Vice: New & Selected Poems, page 78

     It is better to leap into the void.

2. (transitive) To pass over by a leap or jump.

3. (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a female beast)
4. (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a human)

   • go leap her, and engender young devilings

5. (transitive) To cause to leap.

Usage notes

The choice between leapt and leaped is often generally a matter of regional differences: leapt is preferred in British English whereas leaped is somewhat more common in American English (although this is not to say that leapt is not used in American English, especially in areas with historical ties to England). According to research by John Algeo (British or American English?, Cambridge, 2006), leapt is used 80% of the time in UK and 32% in the US.

Synonyms

• (jump from one location to another): bound, hop, jump, spring
• (jump upwards): bound, hop, jump, spring

Derived terms

• beleap
• forthleap
• leaper
• outleap
• overleap
• upleap

Translations

Noun

leap (plural leaps)

1. The act of leaping or jumping.
   • 1877, Henry Sweet, A Handbook of Phonetics

     Changes of tone may proceed either by leaps or glides.

2. The distance traversed by a leap or jump.
3. A group of leopards.
4. (figuratively) A significant move forward.
   • 1969 July 20, Neil Armstrong, as he became the first man to step on the moon

     That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind.

5. (figuratively) A large step in reasoning, often one that is not justified by the facts.

   It's quite a leap to claim that those cloud formations are evidence of UFOs.

6. (mining) A fault.
7. Copulation with, or coverture of, a female beast.
   • 1865, British Farmer's Magazine (issue 48, page 8)

     Much difference of opinion exists as to the number of bullings a cow should receive. Here, I think, good judgment should be used. If the bull is cool and quiet, and some time has intervened since he had his last cow, one good leap is better than more […]

8. (music) A passing from one note to another by an interval, especially by a long one, or by one including several other intermediate intervals.
9. A salmon ladder.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

leap (not comparable)

1. (calendar) Intercalary, bissextile.

Etymology 2

From Middle English leep, from Old English l?ap (“basket”), from Proto-Germanic *laupaz (“container, basket”). Cognate with Icelandic laupur (“basket”).

Alternative forms

• leep

Noun

leap (plural leaps)

1. (obsolete) A basket.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)

2. A trap or snare for fish, made from twigs; a weely.
3. Half a bushel.

Anagrams

• Alep, Lape, Peal, e-pal, pale, pale-, peal, pela, plea