pluralis

pluralis

1. (grammar) plural

• flertal

Learned borrowing from Latin plurālis.

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pluralis m (plural pluralissen or pluralia, no diminutive)

1. (grammar) synonym of meervoud (“plural”)

   Deze vormen zijn pluralia, maar het laatste woord is geen pluralis. ― These forms are plurals, but the last word is not a plural.

From plūs +‎ -ālis.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pɫuːˈraː.lɪs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pluˈraː.lis]

plūrālis (neuter plūrāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

1. plural (pertaining to more than one)
2. (grammar) plural

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

• → Old French: plurel
  • → Middle English: plurelle
    • English: plural
    • Scots: plural
• → German: Pluralis, Plural

plūrālis m (genitive plūrālis); third declension

1. (grammar) plural (short for numerus plūrālis)

Third-declension noun (i-stem).

• “pluralis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “pluralis”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

pluralis n

1. plural

• plural