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pluralizer

noun

Etymology

From pluralize + -er.

  1. borrowed from plūrālis
  2. derived from plurel
  3. inherited from plurelle
  4. suffixed as pluralize — “plural + ize”
  5. formed as pluralizer — “pluralize + -er”

Definitions

  1. A syntactic marker that indicates something is plural

    A syntactic marker that indicates something is plural; a plural marker.

    • The pluralizer is most frequently used with animate nouns, but this is not always the case, e.g. Nigerian PE 'dè nyám dḝm ' 'the yams'.
    • The evidence in chapter 15 suggests that the suffix -z is the unmarked pluralizer; yet , of our six verbs , only two take it .

  2. Someone or something that highlights or embodies plurality, diversity, or multiple…

    Someone or something that highlights or embodies plurality, diversity, or multiple perspectives; an agent or proponent of pluralism.

    • It is after all Freud—with his confusing picture of inversion's genealogy in the first few pages of the Three Essays, especially in footnotes added in 1910, 1915, and 1920—who can be considered the first pluralizer of homosexuality.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for pluralizer. 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