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...

pluralia tantum always have a gender: Wilfried Kürschner (Grammatisches Kompendium, 6. edition, 2008, p. 121) for example states that German pluralia...

vectīgal (Justinian) 'an eighth-part tax' Certain nouns in Latin were plurālia tantum, i.e. nouns that were plural but which had a singular meaning, for...

Diple (pluralia tantum; pronounced [dîple̞], from Greek δῐπλόος lit. 'double, two-fold'), also known as misnjiče, miješnice and mih, is a traditional...

describing things having two parts, comprises the major group of pluralia tantum in modern English: glasses (a pair of spectacles), pants, panties,...

for example to mean "some" (and not others), or to mean "one" with pluralia tantum, e.g. jedne drzwi "one door" (drzwi has no singular). After the numerals...

numerals can be categorized into one of these genders. Exceptions are pluralia tantum (Vianoce – Christmas, though there are rules for deriving the gender)...

compliant, or easily influenced: people likened to sheep". The word is pluralia tantum, which means it does not have a singular form. While its origins are...

nouns) only have a singular form (singularia tantum); other nouns only have a plural form (pluralia tantum): Das All, der Durst, der Sand ("the Universe"...

"furnitures" to describe both members), conversely names plural form are pluralia tantum. However, a partial exception to this is made by the use of vernacular...