pluraliter
Latin
Etymology
Adverb
plūrāliter (not comparable)
- (grammar) in the plural
- c. 65 CE, Seneca the Younger, Naturales quaestiones II.56,1:
- Tonitrua nos pluraliter dicimus; antiqui autem tonitruum dixerunt aut tonum.
- We use the word thunder in the plural, but our forefathers used it in the singular or called it tonum.
- Tonitrua nos pluraliter dicimus; antiqui autem tonitruum dixerunt aut tonum.
References
- “pluraliter”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pluraliter”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.