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.
例文
1. What is the plural of "person "？
personの複数形とは？
2."Data" is the Latin plural form of "datum".
dataはラテン語でdatumの複素数形式である。
3.The word "you "can be singular or plural .
単語youは単数でも複素でもよい。
4.The verb should be in the plural ，e.g."have "in "they have ".
という動詞には、theyhaveのhave.
5のような複数の形式が適用されます。A plural marriage is forbidden by many countries.