However, in later times, the Romanian Orthodox Christmas tradition of Irozii — minstrel shows centered around the figure of Herod the Great ( Rom: Irod ), which were the origin of Romanian-language theater — definitely influenced Purim plays and vice versa.

Irozii influenced the Purim plays of the Romanian Jews ( generally credited as the origin of Yiddish theater ) and vice versa.

Irozii began to fade in the late 19th century ; elaborate pageants are no longer common, though a less elaborate form continues.

As-gard, he conjectures, is the home of the Æsir ( singular Ás ) in As-ia, making a folk etymological connection between the three " As -"; that is, the Æsir were " men of Asia ", not gods, who moved from Asia to the north and some of which intermarried with the peoples already there.

In BrE, collective nouns can take either singular ( formal agreement ) or plural ( notional agreement ) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively ; compare a committee was appointed with the committee were unable to agree.

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.

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 ").

The word Gulag was not often used in Russian — either officially or colloquially ; the predominant terms were the camps () and the zone (), usually singular — for the labor camp system and for the individual camps.

Praetors established a workable body of laws by judging whether or not singular cases were capable of being prosecuted either by the edicta, the annual pronunciation of prosecutable offense, or in extraordinary situations, additions made to the edicta.

* In Macedonia, 84 municipalities ( opštini ; singular: opština ) were established in 2004, reduced from 123 created in 1996.

In brief, values of physical observables such as energy and momentum were no longer considered as values of functions on phase space, but as eigenvalues ; more precisely: as spectral values ( point spectrum plus absolute continuous plus singular continuous spectrum ) of linear operators in Hilbert space.

The name is derived from the ostraka, ( singular ostrakon, ὄστρακον ), referring to the pottery sherds that were used as voting tokens.

" Among those included were the previous decrees placing various heliocentric works on the Index ("... which we will should be considered as though it were inserted in these presents, together with all, and singular, the things contained therein ...") and using his Apostolic authority he bound the faithful to its contents ("... and approve with Apostolic authority by the tenor of these presents, and: command and enjoin all persons everywhere to yield this Index a constant and complete obedience ...") Subsequent to Alexander VII's pontificate, the Index underwent a number of revisions.

He supported his premise by showing that their marriages, in which husband was the head, were arranged according to the rules of good management: those who are in command ( quae principantur ) in their society were always singular, while subordinates ( subiecta ) were multiple.

At the same time, the three different types of heavy infantry were replaced by a single, standard type based on the Principes: armed with two heavy javelins called pila ( singular pilum ), the short sword called gladius, chain mail ( lorica hamata ), helmet and rectangular shield ( scutum ).

In Ancient Rome, thermopolia ( singular thermopolium ) were small restaurant-bars which offered food and drinks to the customer.

The targumim ( singular: " targum ", ), were spoken paraphrases, explanations, and expansions of the Jewish scriptures that a Rabbi would give in the common language of the listeners, which during the time of this practice was commonly, but not exclusively, Aramaic.

By loan-translation, the tengwar became known as tîw ( singular têw ) in Sindarin, when they were introduced to Beleriand.

The letters of the earlier alphabet native to Sindarin were called cirth ( singular certh, probably from * kirte " cutting ", and thus semantically analogous to Quenya sarat ).

The Blessed Dead were collectively called the akhu, or “ shining ones ” ( singular: akh ).

Republican Senators and other leaders, who were divided without a singular political boss, met in Room 404 of the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago and after a nightlong session, tentatively concluded Harding was the best possible compromise candidate.

The tribal groups, or pagi as the Romans called them ( singular: pagus ; the French word pays, " region ", comes from this term ), were organized into larger super-tribal groups the Romans called civitates.

At a conventional date of 1350 BC the fortifications on the acropolis, and other surrounding hills, were rebuilt in a style known as cyclopean because the blocks of stone used were so massive that they were thought in later ages to be the work of the one-eyed giants known as the cyclopes ( singular: Cyclops ).

* In the Romanian language, the vast majority of adverbs are simply the masculine singular form of the corresponding adjective – one notable exception being bine (" well ") / bun (" good ").

However, there are some Romanian adverbs that are built from certain masculine singular nouns using the suffix "- eşte ", such as the following ones: băieţ-eşte ( boyishly ), tiner-eşte ( youthfully ), bărbăt-eşte ( manly ), frăţ-eşte ( brotherly ), etc.

Tu is the 2nd-person singular subject pronoun in Spanish, Italian, Lithuanian, Portuguese, French, Irish, Latvian, Romanian, Latin, and Hindustani.

In some other languages ( necessarily null subject languages and typically pro-drop languages ), such as Portuguese, Spanish, Occitan, Catalan, Italian, Romanian, in Hungarian and all the Slavic languages, an impersonal verb takes no subject at all, but it is conjugated in the third-person singular, which is much as though it had a third-person, singular subject.

Another might be the retention of the neuter gender in nouns, although in synchronic terms, Romanian neuter nouns can also be analysed as " ambigeneric ", i. e. as being masculine in the singular and feminine in the plural ( see below ) and even in diachronic terms certain linguists have argued that this pattern was in a sense " re-invented " rather than a " direct " continuation of the Latin neuter.

Romanian nouns are categorized into three genders, masculine, feminine, and neuter, which however behaves like the masculine in the singular and the feminine in the plural, so that it is unclear whether it stems from the Latin neuter.

Romanian has two numbers: singular and plural.

The Ursari ( generally read as " bear leaders " or " bear handlers "; from the Romanian urs, meaning " bear "; singular: ursar ; Bulgarian: урсари, ursari ) or Richinara are the traditionally-nomad occupational group of animal trainers among the Roma people.

This is the received text of the Eastern Orthodox Church, with the exception that in its liturgy it changes verbs from the plural by which the Fathers of the Council collectively professed their faith to the singular of the individual Christian's profession of faith.

Prince-Bishopric of Montenegro offers a singular example of monarchs willingly turning their power to ecclesiastic authority ( Montenegrin Orthodox ), as the last of the House of Crnojević ( styled Grand Voivode, not sovereign princes ) did, in order to preserve national unity before the Ottoman onslaught as a separate millet under an autochthonous ethnarch.

Both the Eastern Orthodox Church and Oriental Orthodoxy use ( with a small difference in plural / singular form of the verbs " we believe ", " we confess ", " we await ") the original form of the Nicene Creed developed at the First Council of Constantinople in 381, referred to as the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed.

Epimanikia ( singular epimanikion ) are liturgical vestments of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches.

While not bestowing upon the reader any singular theme or underlying purpose, it shows that despite the obviously massive advances in technology, society and scope of human civilisation, we are still fundamentally the same.

With the exception of the verb to be, English shows distinctive agreement only in the third person singular, present tense form of verbs, which is marked by adding "- s " ( I & tbsp ; walk, he & tbsp ; walks ) or "- es " ( he fishes ).

A notable exception to this was relative newcomer Arthur Godfrey who, as late as 1942, was still doing a local morning show in Washington, D. C. Godfrey, who had been a cemetery-lot salesman and a cab driver, pioneered the style of talking directly to the listener as an individual, with a singular " you " rather than phrases like " Now, folks ..." or " Yes, friends ...." His combined shows contributed as much as 12 % of all CBS revenues ; by 1948, he was pulling down a half-million dollars a year.

" The original Greek text, which has " ἐξ ἧς " ( feminine singular ), shows that the phrase " of whom " refers to Mary, not to Joseph or to Mary and Joseph together.

# The number of the word, if it shows any peculiarity in the singular or the plural: the tense of the verb, etc.

English shows a similar lack of distinction between they animate and they inanimate in plural, but does as shown above have such a distinction in singular.

According to the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, the Virgile travesti " is now thought a somewhat ignoble waste of singular powers for burlesque " and the Roman comique ( 1651-1657 ) is Scarron's best work: " This history of a troupe of strolling actors ... is almost the first French novel ... which shows real power of painting manners and character, and is singularly vivid.

The above procedure shows why taking the pseudoinverse is not a continuous operation: if the original matrix has a singular value 0 ( a diagonal entry of the matrix above ), then modifying slightly may turn this zero into a tiny positive number, thereby affecting the pseudoinverse dramatically as we now have to take the reciprocal of a tiny number.

As Fig 3 shows, the reciprocal lattice rods with the lowest orders intersect the Ewald sphere at very small angles, so the intersection between the rods and sphere is not a singular point if the sphere and rods have thickness.

Each of the examples described below shows how a naive perturbation analysis, which assumes that the problem is regular instead of singular, will fail.

The present Genesis Rabba shows a singular disproportion between the length of the first Torah portion and that of the eleven others.

The Germanic strong preterite shows the expected Germanic development of short o to short a in the singular and zero grade in the plural ; these make up the second and third principal parts of the strong verb.

which shows that the metric becomes singular approching the event horizon ( that is, ).

The following chart shows the English, German, and French personal pronouns, possessive determiners, and possessive pronouns ( masculine nominative singular only ).

Formalizing the examples shows that the underlying principle of inflection is basically the same as the righthand head rule ( INF = infinitive, P = past tense, SG = singular, POS = positive, COM = comparative ):

Kusaal shows the typical Gur feature whereby the noun and adjective stems are compounded in that order, followed by the singular / plural endings:

It is interesting to note that Abominus here is a singular entity and shows no sign of being the combined form of different Transformers.