What’s the Plural of Rhinoceros?
Rhinoceros, rhinoceroses and rhinoceri are all accepted to mean more than one of these nose-horned mammals.
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“What’s the plural of sheep?”, “What about fish?”, “If goose is geese plural, does that make moose plural meese?” To all of your questions on plural nouns, we have the answers, Also, no, meese is not the plural of moose; it’s just moose.
What’s the Plural of Schema?
Schema comes from Greek; it’s original pl. n. is schemata. Nowadays either schemas or schemata are accepted as plurals of schema.
What’s the Plural of Self?
The plural of self is selves. Like most nouns that come from German and are sibilants, self takes on -ves as a pl. n. form.
What’s the Plural of Stigma?
Stigmata and stigmas are both accepted plural forms of the singular noun, stigma. Stigma comes from the Greek, and is originally stigma/stigmata.
What’s the Plural of Colloquium?
The plural of the Latin noun, colloquium, (pronounced koll-o-kwee-um) is colloquia or colloquiums.
What’s the Plural of Focus?
Focuses is now much more commonly used as the plural of focus. Foci is also correct.
What’s the Plural of Locus?
Locus, which comes from the Latin word meaning, “a place” (as in, location), has loci as its plural noun form.
What’s the Plural of Platypus? (Platypi, Platypuses?)
Platypus, also called the duck-billed platypus, accepts either platypi, platypuses, and platypus as a plural form.