pluri-, plur-, plu-

1. He has gone to the majority.
2. He is dead.

One from many; one out of many.

Motto of the United States of America, indicating that a single nation was made by uniting many states or a reference to the many states in the United States as being one nation. It may have been adapted from a line in Virgil's poem, "Moretum" which deals with the making of a salad and reads color est e pluribus unus, probably the first use of the phrase in any form. There was also an essay by Richard Steele in The Spectator, August 20, 1722, which opens with the Latin phrase Exempta juvat spiris e pluribus unus: "Better one thorn plucked than all remain."

The Continental Congress ordered the President of Congress to construct a seal in 1776 and E Pluribus Unum appeared on the first seal, as well as on many early coins. Congress adopted the motto in 1781 and it still appears on U.S. coins as well as on the Great Seal of the United States.

"Just a month after the completion of the Declaration of Independence, at a time when the delegates might have been expected to occupy themselves with more pressing concerns—like how they were going to win the war and escape hanging—Congress quite extraordinarily found time to debate the business of a motto for the new nation. (Their choice, E Pluribus Unum, ‘One from Many,' was taken from, of all places, a recipe for salad in an early poem by Virgil.)"

The translated poem, "Moretum", attributed to Virgil, lines 101-106

Virgil used unus because "color" is masculine in Latin; we use the neuter form unum because the United States is considered neuter (neither masculine nor feminine).

Thomas Jefferson is given credit for having suggested E pluribus unum, which was at that time integrated into the first version of the Great Seal in 1776 and has remained there ever since.

Better one thorn plucked than all remain.

Not unequal to most.

This motto, also interpreted to mean "a match for anyone", is attributed to Louis XIV of France, who used the sun as his emblem and was known as Le Roi Soleil, "the sun king".

This is an example of a litotes, a deliberate understatement in which an affirmative thought is expressed by stating the negative of the contrary thought; also, as in the sentence, "I am not unmindful of your devotions".

1. A grammatical term that forms and indicates more than one of anything that is specified: "The plural form of child is children, and of man, it is men, and woman is the plural indication of women, etc."

"Such verbs as are or were indicate plural forms as of is or was."

"The singular forms of I am become such plural forms as, We are; or He, She, It is become plural forms of They are."

2. A reference to more than one thing or person: "There are plural meanings for many word entries in dictionaries."

"More and more plural societies are developing in nations as a result of emigrants who are moving around on a global scale."

A spelling or form of a word which is used to indicate more than one thing or one person: "Most English plurals usually end with an 's'; for example, chickens is the plural of chicken."

"The plurals of words are developed from their singular forms."

1. A social-population system based on mutual respect for each other's cultures among various groups that make up a society, wherein subordinate groups do not have to forsake their lifestyle and traditions but, rather, can express their culture and participate in the larger society free of prejudice: "Esteban appreciates the pluralism of the town in which he and his family are living."
2. A community in which people of different religious beliefs and practices, or various races, etc. can live together and all them can continue to have their different interests, traditions, and social life styles: "There are some nations that still do not allow pluralism to exist."

Someone who holds multiple offices; especially, a clergyman who holds more than one ecclesiastical benefice.

A reference to the quality or condition of multiple or containing more than one of something.

1. Usually a large number of things: "There are often several pluralities of word forms located in dictionaries."
2. A status in which something indicates that it is more than one: "Verbs indicate singularities and their related pluralities; for example, the verb are is the plurality of is or have is the plurality of has."

"We have sore feet. is the plurality of He has a sore foot."

1. To have different social classes, religions, races, etc. living together in a society but all of which continue to have their own traditions and interests: Jack and Jill were a couple who pluralized their racial backgrounds since she was of African descent with dark skin and he was a White with light-colored skin.
2. To use a grammatical morpheme to indicate a noun to be more than one: In her essay for school, Grace made sure that she pluralized the substantives in the correct manner by adding an "s", like boys, girls, parents, etc.