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Perhaps you have heard or seen this word as part of the "Hail Mary" in Latin: "Ave Maria, gratia plena...".

"plena" is the Latin adjective "plenus, plena, plenum" that means "full". The declined "plena" can be from several declensions: the feminine singular nominative or ablative and the nomintive, vocative, accusative plural in the neuter. In the context of "gratia plena", plena here is nominative singular feminine, and is a modifier of the word "gratia" which is feminine and means "grace". Thus "gratia plena" means "full of grace".

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