Replenissant

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Describing something that fills up again or restores a supply that had been depleted, an obsolete term for replenishing
2. Characterizing an action or agent that refills or restocks something previously emptied, a rare archaic adjective
3. Referring to a process of making full once more, especially a supply or store, in older English usage

Etymology: Few English speakers would guess that this word's family includes "plenty." Its base, "replenish," comes from Old French "replenir," meaning "to fill up again," which descends from Latin "replere," "to fill again," built from "re-" and "plere," "to fill." The Latin adjective "plenus," "full," belongs to the same family, and it passed into English through Old French "plentet" as "plenty." So a word meaning to refill and a word meaning abundance share a single ancestor. The form here is a present participle, the "-ant" or "-ing" form, of that verb, so it describes something that is replenishing or filling up. Its French-style ending "-issant" reflects the verb's Old French stem, which is why the spelling looks more French than the common English "-ing" form. English writers used this participle form in the Middle English and early modern periods, but it has since been almost entirely replaced by "replenishing."