Pluralisation

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The act of modifying a term to signify more than one instance involves altering its form to convey multiplicity
2. This involves changing the original word to indicate that there are several occurrences, providing clarity on quantity
3. The process of changing a word's form to express that it refers to more than one entity

Etymology: "Pluralisation" is a plain formation: the noun "plural" with the suffix "-isation", which turns verbs ending in "-ise" into nouns of process. The suffix itself is a layered borrowing. Its ancestry runs back through Ancient Greek "-izein", which passed into Late Latin as "-izare" and reached Middle French as "-iser", then Middle English "-isen" and modern English "-ise". The Latin noun ending "-ātiō", which gave Old French "-ation" and then English "-ation", is the other half, and the two combined in English to form "-isation". "Plural" entered English from Late Latin "pluralis", meaning "consisting of more than one", and it is the source of the grammatical sense that gave the word its footing. The compound "pluralisation" is a modern English formation, and its meaning is the act or process of making something plural, a sense that lets it describe anything made multiple, from grammatical number to a set of things made many.

Synonyms: pluralization