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Plural vs Nonvirile - What's the difference?

plural | nonvirile |

In grammar terms the difference between plural and nonvirile

is that plural is : a word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form while nonvirile is pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine inanimate, feminine and neuter nouns.

As a noun plural

is : a word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.

plural

English

(wikipedia plural)

Alternative forms

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Adjective

(more)
  • Consisting of or containing more than one of something.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Plural faith, which is too much by one.
  • (comparable) Pluralistic.
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    • Synonyms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    Antonyms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (grammar): a word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form.

    • Usage notes

    * Many languages have singular and plural forms for one item or more than one item. Some have a singular form for one, dual form for two, trial form for three, paucal form for several, and plural for more than two (e.g., Arabic, Fijian). * While the plural form generally refers to two or more persons or things, that is not always the case. The plural form is often used for zero persons or things, for fractional things in a quantity greater than one, and for people or things when the quantity is unknown. * In English, the plural is most often formed simply by adding the letter "s" to the end of a noun, e.g. apple/apples. There are many exceptions, however, such as echo/echoes, mouse/mice, child/children, deer/deer (same word), etc.

    Antonyms

    * singular

    See also

    * ----

    nonvirile

    English

    Alternative forms

    * non-virile

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not virile.
  • * 1984 : , The Spell of New Mexico , [http://books.google.com/books?id=YxmAmXA-SPQC]
    • Then there is a consistency, if this feminine theory is true, in the old-womanlike faces of the middle-aged Pueblo Indians; they are stout and appear nonvirile and non-sexual.
  • * 1992 : Edward Jayne, Negative poetics? , [http://books.google.com/books?id=tsGEAAAAIAAJ]
    • Finally, as if by afterthought, Barthes added a final antinomy between virile and nonvirile to complete the regressive sequence for rejecting heterosexual
  • * 2004 : Jude Deveraux, Remembrance? , [http://books.google.com/books?id=x0iRpH3M-VEC]
    • As every romance writer and reader knows, there are virile names and there are nonvirile names.
  • (grammar) Pertaining to a grammatical gender used in plurals of some Slavic languages, corresponding to the personal masculine inanimate, feminine and neuter nouns.
  • * 1975 : Maria Zagórska Brooks, Polish Reference Grammar , page 317] ([http://www.degruyter.de/cont/fb/sk/detail.cfm?isbn=9789027933133 Walter de Gruyter; ISBN 9789027933133)
    • The nonvirile' form is used for nouns of masculine gender not referring to human beings and for neuter and feminine gender nouns. Numerals from five through ten distinguish between two forms: the form for virile gender nouns and the form for ' nonvirile gender nouns which the numerals quantify.

    Antonyms

    * virile