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- What is the plural form of status? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
There are some situations where status may be considered countable In those cases, the plural form can be used as statuses MacMillan dictionary gives 4 definitions for status, and 3 of them are referred to as countable Personally, I would use status as the plural form instead of statuses
- Is it okay to pluralize the word status? [closed]
1 Well, the Anglicized plural would indeed be statuses, although if you wanted to get fancy I suppose you could use status, which is actually the Latin plural (since it's a 4th declension not a 2nd declension noun, in case anyone's interested If it were 2nd declension, the plural would be stati )
- What is the origin of stat? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
According to the OED, stat in this sense originated in pharmacology The word stat would be written on a prescription to mean "immediately" The OED gives two citations for this: 1875 — W H Griffiths Lessons on Prescriptions iv 18: "Stat , immediately " 1971 — Lancet 25 Sept 700 2: "Stat , to be given at once " The word stat is an abbreviation of the Latin word statim, which has the
- When does a plural end in es instead of i? [duplicate]
And stati and viri are not good Latin anyway The Latin plural of status is status, and virus has no recorded plural (it was generally uncountable in Latin) but since it was neuter, its plural must end in -a
- Status vs. state - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Can anyone explain what the difference between status and state is when I talk about the condition or situation of an object? Here's what I got from Longman English Dictionary status: a situati
- grammatical number - What is the plural of status quo? - English . . .
Here is an Ngram chart for the years 1900–2008 tracking "status quos" (blue line) versus "stati quo" (nonvisible red line) versus "statibus quibus" (nonvisible green line) versus "statuses quo" (nonvisible yellow line): The red line, the green line, and the yellow line aren't visible because the matches for those terms are too few to register against the frequency of "status quos " At least
- meaning - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I came across the word “comparator” in the report of International Monetary Fund under the title, “Can women save Japan?” (WP 12 248) co-authored by Chad Steinberg and Masao Nakane “Japan has FLP
- orthography - Is there a rule for “‑ance” vs. “‑ence”? - English . . .
Yes, this is for real No, there really is no rule There used to be a rule in Latin, though Etymonline explains in more detail: -ance suffix attached to verbs to form abstract nouns of process or fact (convergence from converge), or of state or quality (absence from absent); ultimately from L -antia and -entia, which depended on the vowel in the stem word As Old French evolved from Latin
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