English
pleb
A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs.
The story
A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs.
Today it means
noun A commoner; a member of the lower class of a society.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “pleb”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
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