| 释义 |
▪ I. plene, a. rare—1.|pliːn|
[ad. L. plēnus full. Cf. plain a.2 of which plene was a common form in 15–17th c.]
Complete.
1882–3Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1430 Rules were laid down concerning..the plene and defective writings.
[ad. L. plēnē fully, completely (f. plēnus full), tr. late Heb. mālē ful(ly); cf. mod.L. scriptio plena full writing.] A. adv. With vowel sounds represented (by means of consonantal letters, the matres lectionis); also transf. with ref. to other languages. B. adj. Written plene; of or pertaining to this style of notation. C. n. A vowel or word written plene. Contr. with defective.
1828M. Stuart Gram. Heb. Lang. (ed. 3) 237/2 (Index) Words written plene and defective. 1867C. D. Ginsburg tr. E. Levita's Massoreth Ha-Massoreth 147 Upon these plenes there was no necessity to remark that they are plene because they are the most frequent. 1883Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. II. 1430/2 Rules were laid down concerning..the plene and defective writings. 1952I. Gelb Study of Writing v. 175 We may only speculate as to the reasons which may have led to this reduction of signs, and the best possibility which offers itself is an explanation based on the plene writing encountered in many other Oriental systems. 1966Levenston & Sivan Megiddo Mod. Dict.: Eng.–Hebrew p. vi, We have..used ‘plene’ spelling—with full vocalisation in the main entries and partial vocalisation in the sub-entries. 1983Trans. Philol. Soc. 102 The apparently arbitrary changes in preference for certain syllabic signs, or the abandonment of the so-called plene-writing of vowels in some..words are still of doubtful significance. 1986Andersen & Forbes Spelling in Hebrew Bible iv. 117 The fraction of defectives produced by the encoder, times the probability that a defective remains defective, plus the fraction of plenes produced by the encoder,..equals the estimated fraction of defectives in the first copy.
▪ II. plene, plenȝe, plenye
obs. ff. plain v. |