Pliocene=البليوسين

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Pliocene=البليوسين

ONLINE ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:

Pliocene (adj.)

1833, from plio- "more" (Latinized form of pleio-) + -cene.

plio-

word-forming element, Latinate form of pleio-.

pleio-

also pleo-, word-forming element meaning "more," from comb. form of Gk. pleion "larger, greater in quantity, the more part, very many" (comp. of polys "much"), from PIE *ple- (see poly-).

-cene

word-forming element in geology, introduced by Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), from Gk. kainos "new," cognate with L. recens (see recent).

WIKIPEDIA

The Pliocene ( /ˈplaɪ.əsiːn/; archaically Pleiocene) Epoch (symbol P_O^[1]) is the period in the geologic timescale that extends from 5.332 million to 2.588^[2] million years before present. It is the second and youngest epoch of the Neogene Period in the Cenozoic Era. The Pliocene follows the Miocene Epoch and is followed by the Pleistocene Epoch