plural: [14] Plural is one of a range of English words that go back ultimately to Latin plūs ‘more’, a descendant (like English full and Greek pólus ‘much’, source of the English prefix poly-) of the Indo-European base *plē- ‘full’. This was borrowed into English directly as plus [17], in the sense ‘with the addition of’. Plural comes via Old French plurel from the Latin derivative plūrālis ‘more than one’.
Other related words in English include nonplus [16] (etymologically ‘put in a position where “no more” – Latin nōn plūs – can be done’); pluperfect [16] (a lexicalization of the Latin phrase plūs quam perfectum ‘more than perfect’); and surplus. => nonplus, pluperfect, plus, surplus
plural (adj.)
late 14c., from Old French plurel "more than one" (12c., Modern French pluriel), from Latin pluralis "of or belonging to more than one," from plus (genitive pluris) "more" (see plus). The noun meaning "a plural number" is from late 14c.
雙語例句
1. What is the plural of "person"?
person的復數形式是什么？
來自柯林斯例句
2. "Data" is the Latin plural form of "datum".
data在拉丁文中是datum的復數形式。
來自柯林斯例句
3. The word "you" can be singular or plural.
單詞you可以是單數也可以是復數。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The verb should be in the plural, e . g . " have " in " they have " .
這個動詞應用復數形式, 如theyhave中的 have.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
5. A plural marriage is forbidden by many countries.