plus minus

English

Noun

plus minus (sports)

1. A sports statistic measuring a player's impact, equal to the difference between their team's total scoring versus their opponent's when the player is in the game.
2. A sports statistic calculated as the number of goals scored in all league matches minus the number of goals conceded.

Latin

Etymology

From plūs + minus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈpɫuːs ˈmɪ.nʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈplus ˈmiː.nus]

Adverb

plūs minus (not comparable)

1. synonym of fere (“more or less”)
   • c. 52 BCE, Julius Caesar, Commentarii de bello Gallico 8.20.1:

     […] cum victos tanta calamitate existimaret hostes nuntio accepto locum castrorum relicturos, quae non longius ab ea caede abesse plus minus octo milibus dicebantur, […]

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   • c. 27 CE – 66 CE, Petronius, Satyricon 52:

     Habeo scyphos urnales plus minus [C] […] [videtur] quemadmodum Cassandra occidit filios suos, […]

     • Translation by William Charles Firebaugh

       I have goblets as big as wine-jars, a hundred of ’em more or less, with engraving that shows how Cassandra killed her sons, […]

   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata 9.100.3–4:

     Deinde haerere tuo lateri, praecedere sellam,
     Ad viduas tecum plus minus ire decem.

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   • c. 731 CE, Beda Presbyter, Historia ecclesiastica 5.7:Latin, English

     Hic depositus est Caedual, […] ; qui uixit annos plus minus XXX, […]

     • 1910 translation by Lionel Cecil Jane

       Here was deposited Caedwalla, […] He lived about thirty years, […]

Descendants

• →? Polish: plus minus

Further reading

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “plus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

Polish

Etymology

Literally, “plus minus”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplus ˈmi.nus/

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• Syllabification: plus mi‧nus

Particle

plus minus

1. (idiomatic, literary) approximately, more or less

   Synonyms: circa, koło, mniej więcej, około, w przybliżeniu, z grubsza

Further reading

• “plus minus”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎^[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• “plus minus”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎^[3] (in Polish)