What’s the Plural of Schema?
Schema comes from Greek; it’s original pl. n. is schemata. Nowadays either schemas or schemata are accepted as plurals of schema.
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Schema comes from Greek; it’s original pl. n. is schemata. Nowadays either schemas or schemata are accepted as plurals of schema.
Shorts are a plural noun with no singular noun form because shorts are made of pairs.
Stigmata and stigmas are both accepted plural forms of the singular noun, stigma. Stigma comes from the Greek, and is originally stigma/stigmata.
Trousers is only referred to as a plural noun, and has no singular noun form.
Focuses is now much more commonly used as the plural of focus. Foci is also correct.
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.
Locus, which comes from the Latin word meaning, “a place” (as in, location), has loci as its plural noun form.