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Try it out and see. It certainly comes from a Latin word, but did it bring along its Latin plural form? Many don't.– John LawlerCommented Jan 25, 2014 at 18:28
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4@JohnLawler: Should I check its passport into English-land then?– einpoklumCommented Jan 25, 2014 at 18:30
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11"Apparatus" has Latin plural "apparatus" (not "apparati"--my Latin teachers would be appalled). English can either accommodate the Latin plural "apparatus" or use the English plural "apparatuses" of the anglicized word. Both are correct.– MPWCommented Jan 25, 2014 at 23:50
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Definitely never octopi - the original word is Greek but is octopous; so octopus is always an English word taking an English plural. Antipodes is a Greek plural, but oddly one never sees thee singular, although when people in Europe say that I'm from the antipodes I point out that so are they - I'm from the southern antipous, they're from the northern. An otherwise useful website referred to in this discussion claims that datum is never used in English; an engineer will quickly disabuse you of that misconception; certainly I prefer to treat data as plural but wouldn't say it was wrong to do ot– user72194Commented Apr 16, 2014 at 1:51
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Relevant overall discussion: How do you decline nouns borrowed from languages with several categories for declining nouns (or none at all)?– herissonCommented Nov 6, 2015 at 0:37
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