pleyad-o, -i: (astron.) Pleiades; (fig.) a distinguished of authors, etc. Def.: Propra senco: ula stelaro (en signo di «Tauro»); metafora senco: grupo o skolo de autori, partikulare poeti (ex. la Franca pleyado en la 16a yarcento; III-142. — DEFIS
plez-ar: (intr.) to be pleasing, be agreeable; (tr.) to please (ulu); -ar (ad) ulu: to please anyone; ta libro ne plezas (a) me: that book does not please me, is not to my taste, my fancy; facez to, qou plezas vu:do as you like (please); on ne povas plezas omni: one cannot please everybody. — EFI
plezur-o: pleasure: delight, joy. Ex.: Facar ulo kun plezuro. Dansar esas plezuro. — DEFIS
plik-o: (med.) plica, a disease of the hair. — EFI
plint-o: (arch.) plinth. — DEFIS
pliocen-o: (geol.) Pliocene.— DEFIRS
plis-ar: (tr.) to plait; (fig.) to pucker, crease. Def.: Facar reguloza falduri en ulo; (kp. frunsar). — DF
pliz*: "please". — E
plomb-o: lead; -a: (made) of lead; -ea: lead-colo(u)red; -izar: to cover with lead; -siglar: (tr.) to seal or stamp with lead; -isto, -labor-isto: plumber; lead-worker. — DEFIRS
plor-ar: (intr.) to cry, weep, shed tears (pri); -etar, -achar: to whimper, whine, snivel (cf. kri-achar); -igar: to cause (ulu) to cry; -anto, -ero: weeper; -isto: (fig.) hired mourner; -anta, -ema: weeping. V.exp.: vid. lakrim-ifar. — F
plovier-o: (orni.) plover (genus: Charadrius). — EFI
plu: (adv. of comparison) more, further; -e: moreover, besides; plu afabla: more amiable; plu bone, plu juste: better, preferable; plu multi: most (people); the generality, the majority; plu-mult-eso:(condition) plurality; plu multo: (the) more (used substantively); plu mal-e, -a: worse; tante plu ke: all the more that; dum plu kam: during more than; sempre plu: more and more; plu kam ul-tempe:more than ever; nek plu nek min: neither more nor less; quante plu granda la homo: the bigger the person; quante plu me manjas, tante plu me drinkas: the more I eat, the more I drink; demandar plu multo por obtenar min multo: to ask for more to obtain less; plu multa vino kam aquo: more wine than water; diferar per plu o min multo: to differ more or less; il esas plu kompat-inda kam blam-inda: he is more to be pitied than blamed; remedi-ilo plu mala kam la morbo: a remedy worse than the disease; Note: Plu can be used by itself before adjectives and adverbs, but with substantives and verbsmult-a, -e, grand-a, etc. should be added: lu plu multe, ofte ocias kam laboras; plu multa aquo. V exp.: Plu expresas augmento di ula quanto (qua restas o konsideresas identa a su ipsa); plus (quale la matematikal signo, quan ol tradukas) signifikas adiciono, do generale adjunto di ulo ad altro; II-666. Ant.: min.
plu-alt-igar: to make higher, taller; -alt-eskar: to become higher. Note: Plu to such verbalized adjectives as above adds the idea of comparison: -alt-igar: to make higher, taller (i.e. it was high before, or relatively, to make something higher than something else).
plu-bel-igar: to embellish, beautify.
plu-bon-igar: to better, improve.
plu-cher-igar: to make dearer (in price), raise the price of; -eskar: to become, grow dearer.
plu-dens-igar: to condense (a liquid): make more dense, more compact.
plu-dolc-igar: to soften, to render milder. Ex.: La pluvo pludolcigas la vetero. La vetero pludolceskas. Pludolcigar la voco.
plu-ferm-igar: to make firm, stout, resolute. Ex.: Astriktivo plufermigas la pelo. Ruptita gambo plufermeskas diope. Lua autoritato plufermeskas.
plu-fort-igar: to strengthen.
plu-fresh-igar: to freshen; (fig.) to enliven, give a filip to. Ex.: La pluvo plufreshigas la aero. Plufreshigar la korpo, la trupi.
plug-ar: (tr.) to plough; (fig.) to till; -ebla: arable: fit for tillage; -ilo: a plow. Def.: Sulkizar la sulo per plugilo. (fig.) Spadagar la tero por plantacar. — DR
plu-grand-igar: (tr.) to make greater, enlarge, aggrandize.
plu-hard-igar: to harden: to make (ulo) harder.
plu-kurt-igar: to shorten, make (ulo) shorter; -eskar: to contract, shrink.
