adverb
plānē
plānē (comparative plānius, superlative plānissimē)
Classical[ˈpɫaː.neː]Ecclesiastical[ˈplaː.ne]
Mille Verba core vocabulary
Meaning
- plainly (to the senses or understanding), distinctly, intelligibly
- clearly, obviously; (also used as an affirmative answer)
Nihil agis, nihil mōlīris, nihil cōgitās, quod nōn ego nōn modo audiam, sed etiam videam plānēque sentiam.
[There is] nothing you do, nothing you attempt, nothing you plan, which I not only do not hear, but also can [not] see and clearly understand. (The adverb plane + the enclitic particle -que. Several of the definitions given here for plane are appropriate in this context: Cicero plainly, clearly, and fully understands what Catiline conspires against the republic.)63 BCE, Cicero, In Catilinam orationes 1.8 - wholly, utterly, thoroughly, quite
Latīnē defined in Latin in our graded readers
apertē, plēnēplānē — in Evangelium secundum Matthaeum, ch. 26
plānē, adv., v. 1. planus
I. fin.
Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
plānē adv. with comp. and sup.
1 planus, evenly, simply, plainly, clearly, distinctly, intelligibly : plane et Latine loqui, right out : planius dicere: quid? hoc planius egissem, si, etc.: planissime explicare.— Wholly, entirely, utterly, completely, thoroughly, quite : qui alia tam plane scias, T.: nec plane abisse ex conspectu, and not quite out of sight , Cs.: carere sensu communi, H.: plane bene, you have acted quite right : ex rebus plane cognitis: explicari mihi, thoroughly.—By all means, assuredly : te rogo ut plane ad nos advoles: De . argentum est ultro obiectum . . . Ge . Planissume, T.
Origins
From plānus (“intelligible, clear”).
Descendants
- Hungarianpláne