Proto-Italic

*plēō

‘to fill’

Every word has its own definition in its root. These English words share one: Proto-Italic *plēō.

28 English words in this record descend from Proto-Italic *plēō, most familiar first.

• people ← puple ← pueple ← populus ← populus
• popular ← populer ← populāris ← populus ← populus
• supply ← supplien ← soupleer ← suppleo ← pleō
• publication ← publicacioun ← publicacion ← pūblicātiō ← pūblicō
• popularity ← popularitas ← populāris ← populus ← populus
• completion ← completio ← compleō ← pleō
• implement ← implēmentum ← impleō ← pleō
• accomplish ← accomplisshen ← acompliss- ← *(ac)complīre ← compleo
• supplement ← supplementum ← suppleō ← pleō
• manipulation ← manipule ← manipulus ← manus ← pleō
• complement ← complēmentum ← compleō ← pleō
• depletion ← depletio ← depleō ← pleō

More words from *plēō

• replete
• deplete
• publican
• maniple
• repletion
• pueblito
• completory
• explement
• explete
• expletion
• manipular
• opplete
• populetum
• publicate
• remplissage
• suppletion

Etymograph / Proto-Italic *plēō