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What is the plural of “octopus“ in English? Is it “cacti“ or “cactuses“? Should Latin and Greek word maintain the same plural forms in English? Is the word “data“ singular or plural? Is “agenda“ plural or singular? Is it phenomenon or phenomena? These and many other questions will be answered in this video about the plural forms of Greek and Latin words in English! Many thanks to my sponsor Ancient Language Institute. To learn Latin, Ancient Greek, Hebrew, or Old English with some of the best instructors and pedagogy out there, sign up for online lessons at . See my first lesson in Old English on @polýMATHY ! 🦂 Sign up for my Latin Pronunciation & Conversation series on Patreon: 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: 🦂 Support my work on Patreon: ☕️ Support my work with PayPal: And if you like, do consider joining this channel: 🏛 Latin by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: 🏺Ancient Greek by the Ranieri-Dowling Method: 🏛 Ancient Greek in Action · Free Greek Lessons: 👨🏫 My Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata playlist · Free Latin Lessons: 🦂 ScorpioMartianus (my channel *entirely* in Latin & Ancient Greek) 🎙 Hundreds of hours of Latin & Greek audio: 🌍 polýMATHY website: 🌅 polýMATHY on Instagram: 🦁 Legio XIII Latin Language Podcast: 👕 Merch: 🦂 🦅 📖 My book Ranieri Reverse Recall on Amazon: Intro and outro music: Overture of Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) by Mozart #latinplurals #englishgrammar #octopus 00:00 Maria? 00:14 Antennae 01:14 Cacti 03:42 Bacteria 04:23 Octopi or Octopodes? 05:59 Ancient Language Institute 07:13 The correct pronunciation of “processes“ 08:02 Data, Agenda, Algae, Fungi 09:59 Lunar maria 12:06 mic check
