Contextualizebeta

duoplural

adj
/ˌd(j)uː.əʊˈplʊə.ɹ(ə)l/UK/ˌd(j)u.oʊˈplʊ(ə)ɹ.əl/US

Etymology

From duo- + plural.

  1. borrowed from plūrālis
  2. derived from plurel
  3. inherited from plurelle
  4. prefixed as duoplural — “duo + plural”

Definitions

  1. Pertaining to grammatical number (as in singular and plural), referring to two or more of…

    Pertaining to grammatical number (as in singular and plural), referring to two or more of something; nonsingular.

  2. Duoplural number

    Duoplural number; the grammatical number of a noun marking two or more of something.

    • Languages that employ the duoplural include Navajo and Taos, where the verb shows singular, dual, and plural numbers, but the nouns are marked only as singular or nonsingular (duoplural).

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for duoplural. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA