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.

Abbreviator, plural Abbreviators in English or Abbreviatores in Latin, also called Breviators, were a body of writers in the papal chancery, whose business was to sketch out and prepare in due form the pope's bulls, briefs and consistorial decrees before these are written out in extenso by the scriptores.

This does not mean that the episcopate, in the sense of the holder of the order or office of bishop, must have developed only later, or have been plural, because in each church the college or presbyter-overseers ( also called " presbyter-bishops ") did not exercise an independent supreme power ; it was subject to the Apostles or to their delegates.

During ancient Roman times the balteus ( plural baltei ) was a type of baldric commonly used to suspend a sword.

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 ").

Concubinage was an institution practiced in ancient Rome that allowed a man to enter into an informal but recognized relationship with a woman ( concubina, plural concubinae ) not his wife, most often a woman whose lower social status was an obstacle to marriage.

It was superseded by section 132 of the modern LDS edition, which contains a revelation received by Joseph Smith on eternal marriage and teaches the doctrine of plural marriage.

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.

Theodoret, who here copies Irenaeus, turns this into the plural number “ powers ,” and so Epiphanius represents Cerinthus as agreeing with Carpocrates in the doctrine that the world was made by angels.

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 ).

Another theory by Alauddin Samarrai suggests an Arabic origin, from fuyū ( the plural of fay, which literally means " the returned ", and was used especially for ' land that has been conquered from enemies that did not fight ').

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 ).

Plato, uses the plural adjective γνωστικοί – gnostikoi and the singular feminine adjective γνωστικὴ ἐπιστήμη – gnostike episteme in his Politikos where Gnostike episteme was also used to indicate one's aptitude.

Incunable, or sometimes incunabulum ( plural incunables or incunabula, respectively ) is a book, pamphlet, or broadside ( such as the Almanach cracoviense ad annum 1474 ) that was printed — not handwritten — before the year 1501 in Europe.

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.

The word Mormon is often associated with polygamy ( or plural marriage ), which was a distinguishing practice of many early Mormons ; however it was renounced by the LDS Church in 1890,

Although this Manifesto did not dissolve existing plural marriages, relations with the United States markedly improved after 1890, such that Utah was admitted as a U. S. state.

Merriam-Webster notes, " Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective .... however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century.

Under the District Councils Act 1895, The Maldens & Coombe Urban District Council was created ( the plural relating to Old Malden and New Malden ).

Rose states, all the names for various classes of nymphs are plural feminine adjectives agreeing with the substantive nymphai, and there was no single classification that could be seen as canonical and exhaustive.

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 ).

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

* Dutch: &# 39 ; t definite article of neuter nouns and third person singular neuter pronoun, &# 39 ; k first person pronoun, je second person singular pronoun, ie third person masculine singular pronoun, ze third person plural pronoun

However, in the use section of the entry it states that the more common plural is mice, and that the first recorded use of the term in the plural is mice as well ( though it cites a 1984 use of mice when there were actually several earlier ones ).

The " we " passages in Acts, where the first person plural is used, point to the author being a companion of Paul.

Claudius's high status is reinforced by using the royal first person plural (" we " or " us "), and anaphora mixed with metaphor to resonate with Greek political speeches.

For example, in the first edition he declines disg, dceges, plural dcegas, without having observed the law of vowel-change pointed out by Rask.

There is similar evidence that Luke resided in Troas, the province which included the ruins of ancient Troy, in that he writes in Acts in the third person about Paul and his travels until they get to Troas, where he switches to the first person plural.

Many argue that the author of the book must have been a companion of the Apostle Paul, because of several passages in Acts written in the first person plural ( known as the We Sections ).

For example, the personal pronouns in English can be organized into tables, using the categories of person ( first, second, third ), number ( singular vs. plural ), gender ( masculine, feminine, neuter ), and case ( subjective, objective, and possessive ).

In this case, the analogy applies both to the form of the words and to their meaning: in each pair, the first word means " one of X ", while the second " two or more of X ", and the difference is always the plural form-s affixed to the second word, signaling the key distinction between singular and plural entities.

Noteworthy is that all the post-Iron Age tombs in the Nazareth basin ( approximately two dozen ) are of the kokh ( plural: kokhim ) or later types ; this type probably first appeared in Galilee in the middle of the 1st century AD.

The principle most often associated with fundamental latter-day saint teachings is plural marriage, a form of polygyny first taught by Joseph Smith, Jr., the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement.

The first is ragna, the genitive plural of regin (" gods " or " ruling powers "), derived from the reconstructed Proto-Germanic term * ragenō.

In addition to Seurat, the roots of cubism are to be found in the two distinct tendencies of Cézanne's later work: first his breaking of the painted surface into small multifaceted areas of paint, thereby emphasizing the plural viewpoint given by binocular vision, and second his interest in the simplification of natural forms into cylinders, spheres, and cones.

And by adding the suffixes '- de ' and '- ga ' to the singular partitive in case of plural, thus making first a plural genitive case and then adding the comitative suffix:

The Medici family came from the agricultural Mugello region, north of Florence, being mentioned for the first time in a document of 1230. The origin of the name is uncertain, although Medici is the plural of medico, also written " del medico " or " Delmedigo ", meaning, " medical doctor ".

Verbs in the finite moods ( indicative, imperative, subjunctive, and conditional ) are also conjugated to agree with their subjects in person ( first, second, or third ) and number ( singular or plural ), but as in English, the subject must be included except in the imperative mood.

There are personal pronouns which distinguish three persons, two numbers ( singular and plural ), inclusive and exclusive first person plural, and proximate and obviative third persons.

The highest political division beneath that of kingdom among the Anglo-Saxons was the ealdormanry and, while the title ealdorman was replaced by the Danish eorl ( later earl ) over time, the first ealdormen were referred to as duces ( the plural of the original Latin dux ) in the chronicles.