Plural of the word "status"

[Tdol]

Originally Posted by j_meable

Hope that helps.

I'm afraid it doesn't help because your rules are all wrong. You make plurals by adding -s to most words and not just those ending with -e or -h. And the stuff about the apostrophe is wrong. I also agree with Twiliath that the verb should agree with ''status' not 'expenses' in your other answer.

[donperry1]

In software database design, we follow a convention where each entity is pluralized

eg, a table about customer would be "customers"

..now, i have a table about marital status. That is what brought me to this site. VERY INTERESTING, i learned alot.

I named my table Marital_states...now i'll call it Marital_status

thank you all

[philo2009]

Originally Posted by BobK

The Fourth Declension; the Latin plural is status (with a long U). I wish people wouldn't fool around with Latin endings when they don't know what they're doing.

The only admissible English plural for "status" is "statuses". If people aren't happy with that, they need to paraphrase.

b

Complete agreement! 'Status' - however you may pronounce the 'u' - is clearly useless as a plural, and 'stati' has no basis in Latin.

[oceania68]

(newbie here) Australians have a tendency to cut short words that are a "waste of time to speak" commonly known as slang. But the result is still the same.. example of a language transformation? Perhaps!.. Latin is a wonderful language.. i would like to learn one day.. Now as for the word Status v's Statuses v's Statii etc. Most people I know use the word Status or Statuses, because ultimately, everyone understands what is being said. I personally prefer the word Status as "plural" in itself and would also depend upon the context of the sentence.. Many people use Statuses, which is fine, but when you're taught that "Platypus" is the plural form and not "Platypuses" which many of us use, the proper term for 1 Platypus is Platypii which looks ridiculous to me. So some words are accepted through popularity rather than correct forms of language. Laziness? perhaps! But again, it's understanding the meaning of what one is saying. I guess also thats more of an Australian thing perhaps, we are known for it. Cheers everyone...

[Anarch]

Platypodes or Platypuses is the correct plural of Platypus (which is the singular). Platypus is derived, through Medieval Latin, from Ancient Greek and should not have Latin rules applied to it.
Back on topic, I'd have to agree that status should be pluralised to status (with the odd u) if we follow the Latin rules. If however we consider the examples of Octopus and Platypus (taken from Greek), whose plurals are so obscure as to create confusion, then it may be simpler to accept statuses (bearing in mind that language does evolve and English and Latin are distinct languages).



I currently only teach English part-time, and it's been a while since I studied such things, so would not claim my response as definitive but I could not sit idle and read about Platypi and Octopi.

[esperantist]

Well friends, but what is the summary of the topic? I read through a lot of posts, but have no confidence about discussed variants up to now... Maybe there is competent authority who can drop the curtain?

[philo2009]

Summary: the plural of 'status' is 'statuses'.

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[onedmc]

Originally Posted by beascarpetta

No self-respecting Roman citizen or author, be it in the

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dead using any other plural than "STATUS".

I envy those self-respecting Romans they never had to write a document to unambiguously explain the different states that a status manager can be in.

[macanudo]

I did some quick research about status and it appears that people do indeed use statuses for the plural. However it seems to only be for medical or legal use. I also found it for a few off hand things like talking about the statuses of help tickets on online websites or the statuses of RPG characters.
I think if you are talking about the state or condition of a person, it is okay to use statuses, but you shouldn't use it if you are talking about the state or condition of affairs or the social/professional standing of someone. What do you think?
As a sidenote, in chatting with some English teachers on Twitter, it appears 'stati' is considered wrong by most (if not all) English teachers. So my recommendation would be to avoid it.

Anyway, I posted some examples and explainations in a recent blog post: What is the plural of status?
If you disagree with anything, by all means comment.

[SoothingDave]

Not a teacher.

In all of my life I have never heard anyone use "stati." And I have used phrases like "referenda on stadia" (where the media would say referendums on stadiums).

But "stati" seems a bridge too far.