Timeline for What is the plural form of "status"?
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| Jun 28, 2021 at 13:00 | comment | added | Cass Lopez | Whatever form is used, statuses is always unambiguous. | |
| Dec 4, 2019 at 12:08 | comment | added | EvilDr |
@NeonWarge Reading this with exactly the same challenge today. However, the (rather comical) WikiPedia page (which has degenerated into an online debate) would suggest making an alternative word into plural instead, e.g. getDownloadStatus vs getDownloadsStatus. I've no opinion on it TBH...!
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| Sep 18, 2018 at 13:47 | comment | added | Alessio Gaeta | @bobobobo, you are confusing second with fourth declension. Status is fourth. And singular and plural are actually different: in the singular the 'u' in -us is short, as opposite to the long -ūs in plural. In fourth declension you'll find a good number of substantives deriving from verbs (stare -> status). | |
| Jan 27, 2018 at 15:10 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Please add supporting evidence; I can't see the plural form 'statuses' in your link. | |
| Nov 2, 2017 at 12:43 | history | edited | Mehper C. Palavuzlar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 8, 2017 at 7:05 | comment | added | Neon Warge |
I am a developer and I stumbled on this problem. I need to have a method to retrieve me the list of download status of some type of items, so I wrote getDownloadStatuses. I also have another method which retrieve only one specific status of some type of item, namely, getDownloadStatus. I can now distinguish which one returns a list and which one returns a single item given an ID. Just as an example where I happen to use the word statuses, though I could have use the word state(s).
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| Apr 5, 2016 at 7:56 | history | edited | terdon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 31, 2015 at 23:52 | comment | added | ShreevatsaR | @Henry "radius" does end in "-ius". What I said was: plural words end in -ii only when their singular words end in -ius (rather than merely -us). | |
| Feb 3, 2011 at 18:00 | comment | added | ShreevatsaR | @bobobobo: Besides, there isn't a single word not ending in -ius whose plural ends in -ii (AFAIK). Something like statii could only be the plural of “statius”, and only under the right circumstances. (Think of the incorrect *virii, etc.) [Edit: And if you'd read the rest of the answers, you needn't have posted this, and if I'd read the comments on them, I needn't have posted this either. :p] | |
| Jan 13, 2011 at 16:13 | comment | added | bobobobo | Oh, because its from Latin, not Greek | |
| Jan 12, 2011 at 11:25 | comment | added | bobobobo | So why isn't it statii? | |
| Aug 18, 2010 at 21:15 | vote | accept | Am1rr3zA | ||
| Aug 16, 2010 at 4:56 | comment | added | Vincent McNabb | +1 For saying that "statuses" is acceptable, and maintaining your position of using "status" as the plural. | |
| Aug 14, 2010 at 20:45 | comment | added | cori | That's not always clear in some business uses: "How many status did you maintain on that order?" vs "How many statuses did you maintain on that order?" Obviously one could change that to "state": "How many states did...?" but when the business term in use is "status" then altering the term makes things less clear. Of course this is a specialized use-case. | |
| Aug 14, 2010 at 11:48 | history | answered | Mehper C. Palavuzlar | CC BY-SA 2.5 |