plerique

plerique is a Latin form of plerusque, meaning “most, the greater part”. It is the nominative plural masculine adjective or vocative plural masculine adjective.

It can also be a form of plerus, “(plerique, pleraque) most, the majority; (plerumque) generally, usually”.

Found 386 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.14.2: Interiores plerique frumenta non serunt, sed lacte et carne vivunt pellibusque sunt vestiti. Omnes vero se Britanni vitro inficiunt, quod caeruleum efficit colorem, atque hoc horridiores sunt in pugna aspectu;

Plautus, Epidicus 2.1.166: Plérique homines, quós cum nil refért pudet,

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 20.6.4: Terentius in Phormione: Ita plérique ingenió sumus omnes, nóstri nosmet paénitet.

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.