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Plene scriptum
“Fully written.”
Scholarly Latin term
Translation
What does “Plene scriptum” mean?
Plene scriptum translates as “Fully written.”
Written out in full; used especially for Hebrew words spelled with extra vowel letters rather than in the shorter ‘defective’ spelling.
Origin
The story behind it
A scholarly term of textual and Hebrew studies, contrasted with ‘defective’ (shortened) spelling.
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