plenty

Meanings

1. 1
   pron

   A large amount that is more than enough.

   There was plenty of food for everyone.

2. 2
   noun

   A situation in which there is a large, more-than-adequate supply of things.

   We are lucky to live in a land of peace and plenty.

3. 3
   adv

   More than enough; very.

   This office is plenty big enough for our needs.

From Middle English plentie, plentee, plente, from Anglo-Norman plenté, from Old French plenté, from Latin plenitatem, accusative of plenitas (“fullness”), from plenus (“complete, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *pl̥h₁nós (“full”), from which English full also comes, via Proto-Germanic. Related to the Latin derivatives complete, deplete, replete.

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