Pluralisations

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The process or act of forming the plural of a word that alters its spelling or pronunciation
2. Variations and forms that exist to denote multiple quantities of a noun
3. Different methods or rules applied in language to convert singular terms into their respective plural forms

Etymology: "Pluralisations" is simply the plural of "pluralisation," so the history belongs to the noun it pluralises. That noun is built from "plural" plus the suffix "-isation," which English took from French "-ation," itself descended from Latin "-ātiō," a suffix forming nouns of action or process. The chain runs back further through Greek "-izein," where the suffix originally expressed making or causing something to become a certain thing. The base, "plural," comes from Latin "pluralis," from "plus," meaning "more." So a "pluralisation" is, literally, the process of making something more than one. The suffix "-ise" in the middle is the verb-forming element that English combined with "-ation" to turn "pluralise" into a noun of action.

Synonyms: pluralizations, multiplications, augmentations, increases, expansions

Antonyms: singularizations, reductions, decreases, contractions, simplifications