A plurale tantum (Latin for 'plural only'; pl. pluralia tantum) is a noun that appears only in the plural form and does not have a singular variant for...

camps', etc. Except for the numbers 1, 3, and 4 and their compounds, the plurale tantum numerals are identical with the distributive numerals (see below). non...

A hair clipper, often individually called the apparent plurale tantum hair clippers (in a similar way to scissors), is a specialised tool used to cut human...

Slovak (pronounced [ˈtatri] ) or in Polish (pronounced [ˈtatrɨ]) - plurale tantum), are a series of mountains within the Western Carpathians that form...

Castrensis is a Latin adjective derived from the noun castra (a neutral plurale tantum) meaning "military camp". It is part of several titles of offices relating...

Fasces (/ˈfæsiːz/ FASS-eez, Latin: [ˈfaskeːs]; a plurale tantum, from the Latin word fascis, meaning 'bundle'; Italian: fascio littorio) is a bound bundle...

shrubs), or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the plurale tantum woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight...

Bilboes (plurale tantum) are iron restraints normally placed on a person's ankles. They have commonly been used as leg shackles to restrain prisoners for...

pluralized from Proto-Semitic *šamāy-. This renders שָׁמַיִם šāmayīm a plurale tantum, simultaneously singular and plural. Therefore, "heaven" and "heavens"...

The plural form, most common in speech but less so in print, is a plurale tantum, and seems to be on the model of a pair of scissors. The name of the...

to be set to music and sung". By the 1930s, the present use of the plurale tantum "lyrics" had begun; it has been standard since the 1950s for many writers...

to reflect it has two legs; the word has no singular form (it is a plurale tantum). This construction is common in English and Italian (brache, plural...

1 water aman (plurale tantum) 2 nose tinzaa (plurale tantum) 3 to run azzeř 4 fire timessi 5 mouth aqemmum, imi 6 tongue iřes 7 meat aysum ~ aksum 8 bone...

crowns, emblems, and coats of arms. "Insignia" can be used either as a plurale tantum word, i.e. unchanged for both singular and plural, or it can take the...

example dážď – dažďa, nôž – noža); in G pl, geographical names in pl. (plurale tantum) change the a / e / i / o / u (without an acute or a preceding i) in...

such as the English scissors. These are referred to with the term plurale tantum. Occasionally, a plural form can pull double duty as the singular form...

Chechen-Ingush folklore. The term nart comes from the Ossetian Nartæ, which is plurale tantum of nar. The derivation of the root nar is of Iranian origin, from Proto-Iranian...

tool might be referred to as a caliper or as calipers — a plural only (plurale tantum) form, like scissors or glasses. Colloquially, the phrase "pair of verniers"...

feminine: "depth" Niemcy: plural masculine-personal: "Germans" non-personal plurale tantum: "Germany" twardziel: masculine: "tough guy" feminine: "heartwood" włóczęga:...

provincial parliaments) of the seven provinces. In each States (a plurale tantum) sat representatives of the nobility and the cities (the clergy were...

grit. Fly ash, flue ash, coal ash, or pulverised fuel ash (in the UK)—plurale tantum: coal combustion residuals (CCRs)—is a coal combustion product that...

developed true mass-noun senses despite having grown from count-noun roots. Plurale tantum – Noun that appears only in the plural form Rothstein, Susan (27 August...

"Cattle" can only be used in the plural and not in the singular: it is a plurale tantum. Thus one may refer to "three cattle" or "some cattle", but not "one...

English-language usage, there is no singular form, making the word a plurale tantum; out of various major dictionaries, only one enters variation from plural...

Wünsch. In the parlance of the South Slavs, in addition to the feminine plurale tantum "gusle" that has prevailed as a lexeme, even the older "gusli", which...

animal names, including names for groups Mass noun Measure words Plural Plurale tantum Synesis Fanous, Samuel (2014). A Conspiracy of Ravens: a compendium...

members below. Some nouns have no singular form. Such a noun is called a plurale tantum. Examples include cattle, thanks, clothes (originally a plural of cloth)...

chess became known as шахматы (shakhmaty, literally "checkmates", a plurale tantum). The game reached Western Europe and Russia by at least three routes...

European bagpipes, such as the Bulgarian kaba gaida and the Slovak gajdy (plurale tantum). The linguist Joan Coromines has suggested that the word gaita most...

the singular (singulare tantum) such as: materials, such as aurum 'gold' Some nouns are only used in the plural (plurale tantum), or when plural have a...