Middle English Dictionary Entry
plurel n.
Entry Info
| Forms | plurel n. Also plurelle. |
| Etymology | From adj. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Gram. The plural number.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)238a/b : Most comunliche caule is y-cleped 'olus' in þe singuler and 'olera' in þe plurell.
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)243a/a : It is 'hoc porrum' in the synguler and 'hij porri' in þe plurell, and is so neutre gendre in þe singuler and masculyne in þe plurell.
- c1450 Battlefield Gram.(Trin-C O.5.4)118 : How knowyste prolempcis? A figure by the whych men diuiden a noun that by tokenyth the hole by the singuler or by the plurell.
- c1450 Pilgr.LM (Cmb Ff.5.30)64 : The glooves with whiche thilke tastinge and thilke hondes thow shuldest arme..men clepen continence, the which seyinge in singuler may wel be said equipolle to a plurelle, For..with oo glooue shulde no wiht be wel glooved ne wel armed.
- ?a1500 My lefe (Sln 1210)14 : Have mynd of thi clensoune, Both of nowne and of pronowne, And ilk case in plurele, How thai sal end, awyse the wele.