December 4, 2022

What’s the Plural of Colloquium?

The plural of the Latin noun, colloquium, (pronounced koll-o-kwee-um) is colloquia or colloquiums.

Focuses is now much more commonly used as the plural of focus. Foci is also correct.

Genuses and genera are both accepted plurals of genus.

Glasses are a ‘plural-only’ noun, and are only used as a plural noun. Objects that are made up of parts/pieces/pairs are called plural-only.

The plural of larva is larvae or larvas.

Locus, which comes from the Latin word meaning, “a place” (as in, location), has loci as its plural noun form.

Offspring is a mass noun with no plural form.

Pants are a plural-only noun, with no singular noun form, since pants are made up of parts. As a singular, pants are called ‘a pair of pants’.

Platypus, also called the duck-billed platypus, accepts either platypi, platypuses, and platypus as a plural form.

Often called ‘a pair of scissors,’ scissors are only referred to as a plural, since it’s made up of parts.