different between plural vs duoplural

English

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation, grammar): pl.

Etymology

From Middle English plurelle, from Old French plurel (“plural”), borrowed from Latin pluralis (“of or belonging to more than one, belonging to many”, adjective), from plus, pluris (“more”) + -alis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pl??.??l/, /?pl??.??l/
  • (obsolete) IPA^(key): /?plj??.??l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?pl???l/, /?pl???l/
• Rhymes: -????l

Adjective

plural (comparative more plural, superlative most plural)

1. Consisting of or containing more than one of something. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. (comparable) Pluralistic.

Synonyms

• manifold
• multiple
• morefold
• several

Related terms

• singular

Translations

Noun

plural (plural plurals)

1. (grammar, uncountable) The plural number. In English, referring to more than one of something.
2. (grammar, countable) A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.

Usage notes

• Many languages have singular for one item and plural for more than one item. Some languages also have a dual form for two, a trial form for three, or a paucal form for several (e.g. Fijian). Other languages do not distinguish any of these categories.
• While the plural form generally refers to two or more persons or things, that is not always the case. The plural form is often used for zero persons or things, for fractional things in a quantity that is not equal to one, and for people or things when the quantity is unknown.
• In English, the plural is most often formed simply by adding the letter "s" to the end of a noun, e.g. apple/apples. There are many exceptions, however, such as echo/echoes, mouse/mice, child/children, deer/deer (same word), etc.

Derived terms

• plurale tantum

Related terms

• singular

Translations

See also

• (grammatical numbers) grammatical number; singular, dual, trial, quadral, paucal, plural ^{(Category: en:Grammar)}

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?r?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /plu??al/

Adjective

plural (masculine and feminine plural plurals)

1. plural

   Antonym: singular

Noun

plural m (plural plurals)

1. plural

   Antonym: singular

Derived terms

• pluralisme
• pluralista

Related terms

• pluralitat

Further reading

• “plural” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “plural” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “plural” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “plural” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?r?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ply.?al/

Adjective

plural (feminine singular plurale, masculine plural pluraux, feminine plural plurales)

1. plural, large

Related terms

• pluralisme
• pluraliste
• pluralité
• pluri-
• pluriel

Further reading

• “plural” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?r?lis.

Noun

plural m or f (plural plurais)

1. plural

   Antonym: singular

Derived terms

• pluralismo
• pluralista

Related terms

• pluralidade

Further reading

• “plural” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?r?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plu??a?l/

Adjective

plural (not comparable)

1. pluralistic

Declension

Synonyms

• (pluralistic): pluralistisch

References

• “plural” in Duden online

Indonesian

Etymology

From English plural, from Middle English plurelle, from Old French plurel (“plural”), from Latin pluralis (“of or belonging to more than one, belonging to many”, adjective), from plus, pluris (“more”) + -alis. Compare to Afrikaans pluraal.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?plural]
• Hyphenation: plu?ral

Adjective

plural

1. plural: consisting of or containing more than one of something.

   Synonyms: jamak, majemuk

Related terms

Further reading

• “plural” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Maltese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plu?r??l/

Noun

plural m

1. (grammar) plural

Middle English

Adjective

plural

1. Alternative form of plurelle

Occitan

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?r?lis.

Noun

plural m (plural plurals)

1. plural

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?r?lis.

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /plu.??aw/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /plu.??al/

Adjective

plural m or f (plural plurais, comparable)

1. plural (consisting of more than one things)

   Antonym: singular

Noun

plural m (plural plurais)

1. (grammar) plural (word referring to multiple things)

   Antonym: singular

Derived terms

• pluralismo
• pluralista

Related terms

• pluralidade

Further reading

• “plural” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin pluralis

Noun

plural n (plural plurali)

1. plural

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?r?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?ra?l/
• Hyphenation: plu?ral

Noun

plùr?l m (Cyrillic spelling ????????)

1. (uncountable) plural

Declension

Synonyms

• množìna

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?r?lis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plu??al/, [plu??al]

Adjective

plural (plural plurales)

1. plural, multiple

   Antonym: singular

Noun

plural m (plural plurales)

1. (grammar) plural

   Antonym: singular

Derived terms

• pluralismo
• pluralista

Related terms

• pluralidad

Further reading

• “plural” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

duo- +? plural

Adjective

duoplural (not comparable)

1. (grammar) Pertaining to grammatical number (as in singular and plural), referring to two or more of something; nonsingular.

Noun

duoplural (plural duoplurals)

1. (linguistics, grammar) Duoplural number; the grammatical number of a noun marking two or more of something.

   Languages that employ the duoplural include Navajo and Taos, where the verb shows singular, dual, and plural numbers, but the nouns are marked only as singular or nonsingular (duoplural).

See also

• dual
• paucal
• plural
• quadral
• singular
• singulative
• trial
• unal

Translations