These offices becoming vacant by death of the Abbreviator, no matter where the death take place, are reserved in Curia.

III, p. 211 describes Burchard as having been a cleric of the Papal Chapel, an Abbreviator of Papal Letters and Dean of the Cathedral of Basel at the time of his promotion to the See of Orte.

Proper nouns that are plural in form take a plural verb in both AmE and BrE ; for example, The Beatles are a well-known band ; The Saints are the champions, with one major exception: largely for historical reasons, in American English, the United States is is almost universal.

In English usage, the genitive " of Æsir faith " is often used on its own to denote adherents ( both singular and plural ).

The fruit is a peculiar kind of capsule named siliqua ( plural siliquae, American English silique / siliques ).

The term " bagpipe " is equally correct in the singular or plural, although in the English language, pipers most commonly talk of " the pipes ", " a set of pipes ", or " a stand of pipes ".

11 ) identifies Old Norse Baldr with the Old High German Baldere ( 2nd Merseburg Charm, Thuringia ), Palter ( theonym, Bavaria ), Paltar ( personal name ) and with Old English bealdor, baldor " lord, prince, king " ( used always with a genitive plural, as in gumena baldor " lord of men ", wigena baldor " lord of warriors ", et cetera ).

For example, in this grammar, some special words are for teaching languages, and not part of Basic English: plural, conjugate, noun, adjective, adverb, qualifier, operator, pronoun, and directive.

First attested in English 1664, the word " celery " derives from the French céleri, in turn from Italian seleri, the plural of selero, which comes from Late Latin selinon, the latinisation of the Greek σέλινον ( selinon ), " parsley ".

Cannon serves both as the singular and plural of the noun, although in American English the plural cannons is more common.

The fourth edition of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language endorses both computer mice and computer mouses as correct plural forms for computer mouse.

However, confusion often stems from the fact that plural verb forms are often used in British English with the singular forms of these count nouns ( for example: " The team have finished the project .").

Conversely, in the English language as a whole, singular verb forms can often be used with nouns ending in "- s " that were once considered plural ( for example: " Physics is my favorite academic subject ").

In British English, it is generally accepted that collective nouns can take either singular or plural verb forms depending on the context and the metonymic shift that it implies.

For instance the word Ofen ( English: oven ) has the plural Öfen ( ovens ).

In Modern English, nouns have distinct singular and plural forms ; that is, they decline to reflect their grammatical number.

The article is never regarded as declined in Modern English, although technically the words this and that, and their plural forms these and those, are modern forms of the as it was declined in Old English.

Originally ælf / elf and its plural ælfe were the masculine forms, while the corresponding feminine form ( first found in eighth century glosses ) was ælfen or elfen ( with a possible feminine plural-ælfa, found in dunælfa ) which became the Middle English elven, using the feminine suffix-en from the earlier-inn which derives from the Proto-Germanic *- innja ).

Middle High German has a feminine singular elbe and a plural elbe, elber, but the word becomes very rare, mostly surviving in the adjective elbisch, and is replaced by the English form elf, elfen via 18th century German translations of Shakespeare's A Midsummernight's Dream.

Though English pronouns can have subject and object forms ( he / him, she / her ), nouns show only a singular / plural and a possessive / non-possessive distinction ( e. g., chair, chairs, chair's, chairs &# 39 ;).

Verdi's name literally translates as " Joseph Green " in English ( although verdi is the plural form of " green ").

The standard plural of the word kimono in English is kimonos, but the unmarked Japanese plural kimono is also sometimes used.

A ( named a, plural aes ) is the first letter and vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

), Anatho ( Isidore Charax ), Anatha ( Ammianus Marcellinus ) by Greek and Latin writers in the early Christian centuries, Ana ( sometimes, as if plural, Anat ) by Arabic writers.

The Boii ( Latin plural, singular Boius ; Greek ) were one of the most prominent ancient Celtic tribes of the later Iron Age, attested at various times in Cisalpine Gaul ( northern Italy ), Pannonia ( Hungary and its western neighbours ), in and around Bohemia, and Transalpine Gaul.

The word consonant comes from Latin oblique stem cōnsonant -, from cōnsonāns ( littera ) " sounding-together ( letter )", a calque of Greek σύμφωνον sýmphōnon ( plural sýmphōna ).

A codex ( Latin caudex for " trunk of a tree " or block of wood, book ; plural codices ) is a book made up of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, or similar, with hand-written content, usually stacked and bound by fixing one edge and with covers thicker than the sheets, but sometimes continuous and folded concertina-style.

A single compact set is sometimes referred to as a compactum ; following the Latin second declension ( neuter ), the corresponding plural form is compacta.

cos .; Latin plural consules ) was the highest elected office of the Roman Republic and an appointive office under the Empire.

When the Arabic text was translated into Latin, the translator Gerard of Cremona ( probably in Spain ) mistook the Arabic word كلاب for kilāb ( the plural of كلب kalb ), meaning " dogs ", writing hastile habens canes (" spearshaft having dogs ").

A die ( plural dice, from Old French dé, from Latin datum " something which is given or played ") is a small throwable object with multiple resting positions, used for generating random numbers.

E ( named e, plural ees ) is a vowel and the fifth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

Sileni is the plural ( Latin ) form of Silenus, a creature often related to the Roman wine god, Bacchus, thus represented in pictorial art as inebriated, merry revellers, who are mounted on donkeys, singing, dancing, playing flutes etc.

It is possible, Samarrai says, that French scribes, writing in Latin, attempted to transliterate the Arabic word fuyū ( the plural of fay ), which was being used by the Muslim invaders and occupiers at the time, resulting in a plurality of forms-feo, feu, feuz, feuum and others-from which eventually feudum derived.

In ancient Rome, the genius ( plural in Latin genii ) was the guiding spirit or tutelary deity of a person, family ( gens ), or place ( genius loci ).

H ( named aitch, plural aitches, or haitch ) is the eighth letter in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

An infundibulum ( Latin for funnel ; plural, infundibula ) is a funnel-shaped cavity or organ.

The corresponding noun is amor ( the significance of this term for the Romans is well illustrated in the fact, that the name of the City, Rome — in Latin: Roma — can be viewed as an anagram for amor, which was used as the secret name of the City in wide circles in ancient times ), which is also used in the plural form to indicate love affairs or sexual adventures.

Historically, manuscripts were produced in form of scrolls ( volumen in Latin ) or books ( codex, plural codices ).

The name Nostratic derives from the Latin word nostrās, meaning ' our fellow-countryman ' ( plural: nostrates ) and has been defined, since Pedersen, as consisting of those language families that are related to Indo-European.

Italian, for example, has a group of nouns deriving from Latin neuter nouns that acts as masculine in the singular but feminine in the plural: il braccio / le braccia ; l ' uovo / le uova.

O ( named o, plural oes ) is the fifteenth letter and a vowel in the ISO basic Latin alphabet.

An ovum ( plural ova, from the Latin word ovum meaning egg or egg cell ) is a haploid female reproductive cell or gamete.

The word opera means " work " in Italian ( it is the plural of Latin opus meaning " work " or " labour ") suggesting that it combines the arts of solo and choral singing, declamation, acting and dancing in a staged spectacle.

Credited as the first to use a diminutive of organ ( i. e., little organ ) for cellular structures was German zoologist Karl August Möbius ( 1884 ), who used the term organula ( plural of organulum, the diminutive of Latin organum ).