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superplural

noun
/ˌs(j)upəːˈplʊəɹ(ə)l/UK/ˌsupəɹˈplʊ(ə)ɹəl/US

Etymology

PIE word *upér From super- (prefix meaning ‘greater in quantity than’) + plural.

  1. borrowed from plūrālis
  2. derived from plurel
  3. inherited from plurelle
  4. formed as superplural — “super- + plural”

Definitions

  1. A term, word, etc., that describes a plurality greater than another plural.

    • The singular number, I understand, denotes one, and the plural more than one, but to describe the number of flies we have here would require a super-plural. It is not that we have merely 'more than one'—we have myriads of flies.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for superplural. 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