I learned in this great website (I just found out about it today), that the plural of status is 'statuses.' I don't know what you think, but in my personal opinion this sounds horrible
! If the plural ofAlumnus is Alumni, why can't we apply the same rule with Status? I bet that's the way the Romans did it.


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paco
I think the reason that many universities like the word 'alumni' instead of 'alumnuses' is because they want to give the word an 'academic, look at me, I know Latin' kind of air. That way, the alumni will donate more money to their alma mater.
No such cachet attaches to the word 'status'.
Best wishes, Clive
"The relative status of each of the defendants is insignificant...." Each defendant has one status; none has more than one status.
You mean "spaghettos", of course, the (Italian) singular of 'spaghetti" being "spaghetto".
«Status» is a noun of the fourth declension. It has the plural «status» in Latin with a long U. «Stati» is therefore an error.
Kind regards,
Goldmund