# plena
## English
### Etymology 1
#### Noun

plena (countable and uncountable, plural plenas)
* (music, uncountable) A style of Puerto Rican music having a highly syncopated rhythm and often satirical lyrics
* (music, countable) A song in this style

### Etymology 2
#### Noun

plena
* plural of plenum

### Anagrams

* 'plane, Alpen, Nepal, Palen, Plean, palen, panel, penal, plane

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [ˈplɛ.nə]
* IPA: (Balearic) [ˈplə.nə]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈple.na]

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

plena f (plural plenes)
* (castells) in a castell with three or five castellers per level, the column to the right of the rengla
* (games) a game similar to bingo popular around Christmastime
    Synonyms: quina, quinto, rifla

### Etymology 2
#### Adjective

plena f sg
* feminine singular of ple

## Czech
### Alternative forms

* pléna, plína

### Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *plěna, *pelena (“thin skin, thin fabric”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“skin”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈplɛna]

### Noun

plena f
* diaper (US), nappy (UK)
    Synonym: plenka

#### Derived terms

* mozková plena
* plenčička
* plenečka
* plenka
* plénčička
* plénečka
* plénka
* plínčička
* plínečka
* plínka

### References

* ↑ Václav Machek (1968) Etymologický slovník jazyka českého [Etymological Dictionary of the Czech Language], 2nd edition, Prague: Academia
* ↑ Jiří Rejzek (2007) “plena”, in Český etymologický slovník (in Czech), Leda

### Further reading

* “plena”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “plena”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “plena”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Esperanto
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈplena/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: ple‧na

### Adjective

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

#### Antonyms

* vakua

## Interlingua
### Verb

plena
* present of plenar
* imperative of plenar

## Latin
### Adjective

plēna
* inflection of plēnus:
** nominative/vocative feminine singular
** nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

### Adjective

plēnā
* ablative feminine singular of plēnus

## Portuguese
### Adjective

plena
* feminine singular of pleno

## Spanish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈplena/ [ˈple.na]
* Rhymes: -ena
* Syllabification: ple‧na

### Etymology 1
#### Adjective

plena
* feminine singular of pleno

### Etymology 2

Borrowed from French plaine.

#### Noun

plena f (plural plenas)
* (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)
* (Caribbean Spanish) a type of music from the island of Puerto Rico featuring a characteristic rhythm played upon frame drums called panderetas
* (by analogy, Panama) Dancehall music, Reggae en Español
* (by extension, Panama) A song, especially one that is catchy and/or personally preferred by the listener; a jam, a tune.

### Further reading

* “pleno”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10