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The plurals of the Romance languages, and their historical origin and development, are an important area of study in comparative and historical Romance linguistics. There are two general categories that Romance languages fall into based on the way they form plurals. Languages of the first category, belonging to Western Romance, generally employ a plural suffix morpheme -s. Languages of the second category, belonging to Italo-Dalmatian and Eastern Romance, form the plural by changing the final vowel of the singular form, or suffixing a new vowel to it.
There are various hypotheses about how these systems—especially the second—emerged historically from the declension patterns of Vulgar Latin, and this remains an area of much debate and controversy amongst scholars of Romance.
plurals of the Romance languages, and their historical origin and development, are an important area of study in comparative and historical Romance linguistics...
noun. (For details and different cases, see English plurals). Just like in English, noun plurals in French, Spanish and Portuguese are also typically...
occurs. Some plurals do differ from the singular in pronunciation; for example, masculine singulars in -al [al] sometimes form masculine plurals in -aux [o]...
languages have vowel-changing plurals rather than /s/ plurals. The Lombard language in north-central Italy and the Rhaeto-Romance languages have the "southeast"...
derived from the Latin accusative case (though see Romanceplurals § Origin of vocalic plurals), as in "buns chavals" "good horses" as opposed to Lombard...
[ ], / / and ⟨ ⟩, see IPA § Brackets and transcription delimiters. The Romance languages, also known as the Latin or Neo-Latin languages, are the languages...
masculine plural amici is thought to reflect the Latin nominative plural -ī rather than accusative plural -ōs (Spanish -os); however, the other plurals are...
Languages of Europe Ligurian language Piedmontese language Pierre Bec Romanceplurals Venetian language Classical Milanese orthography, Scriver Lombard [lmo]...
Western Romance languages are one of the two subdivisions of a proposed subdivision of the Romance languages based on the La Spezia–Rimini Line. They include...
when they had not become homophonous (like the generally more distinct plurals), which indicates that nominal declension was shaped not only by phonetic...
inflected language, since its nouns have only vestiges of inflection (plurals, the pronouns), and its regular verbs have only four forms: an inflected...
Andalusi Romance, also called Mozarabic or Ajami, refers to the varieties of Ibero-Romance that developed in Al-Andalus, the parts of the medieval Iberian...
Romance verbs are the most inflected part of speech in the language family. In the transition from Latin to the Romance languages, verbs went through...
Ivano Paccagnella say that the plural -es of boves may well be considered Ladin and therefore a genuine Romanceplural rather than a Latinism. Albo 'white'...
n)napulitano [(o n)napuliˈtɑːnə]; Italian: napoletano) is a Romance language of the Italo-Romance group spoken in Naples and most of continental Southern...
Polygamy (called plural marriage by Latter-day Saints in the 19th century or the Principle by modern fundamentalist practitioners of polygamy) was practiced...
ending in -in or, less commonly, in -ett, have plurals in -itt (fiolin/fiolitt). Those ending in -ll have plurals in -j, (el sidell/i sidej ; el porscell/i...
fʁɑ̃sɛːz]) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French...
rule does not apply to adjectives of Romance origin. Nouns are pluralised and also have a dual marker. Semitic plurals are complex; if they are regular,...
Romance language of the Indo-European language family that evolved from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire. Italian is the least divergent Romance language...
with unpredictably-formed plurals, there is no dedicated separate plural suffix for Brithenig, thus, the singular and plural forms are almost always invariable...
Some Latin neuter plurals (which ended in -a) were reanalysed as feminine singulars: Lat gaudium was more widely used in the plural form gaudia, which...
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