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What is the plural form of "status"?

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There are some situations where status may be considered countable. In those cases, the plural form can be used as statuses. MacMillan dictionary gives 3 definitions for status, and 2 of them are referred to as countable & uncountable. Personally, I would use status as the plural form instead of statuses.

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This, to me, is the most sensible answer. – redreinard Oct 25 '15 at 19:38

It is definitely status - with a long "u".


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@Elenaher, nobody is saying that Latin has no use, just that it is not the final authority, especially in cases such as this. – Kirk Woll Apr 24 '12 at 0:17




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I see that I've very late to answer. I usually try to avoid the use of "status" as a plural, instead option to use the near-synonym "state".

Take for example these three attempts at pluralizing "status", all of which I've seen coworkers using:

The product should support the following statuses: Red Green Blue
The product should support the following status: Red Green Blue
The product should support the following statii: Red Green Blue

None of those sound natural, and one is objectively wrong. The issue is sidestepped by substituting "states":

The product should support the following states: Red Green Blue

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it's helpful, like the alternative – Am1rr3zA Mar 25 at 16:23

Many moons ago, our own tchrist wrote*

… If for some bizarre reason you simply cannot bring yourself to use the normal English plural form “statuses”, then you must learn that the true plural of status is statUs, with a macro[n] over the u [i.e., statūs] and pronounced “statoose”. That’s because status comes from the Latin declension that forms plurals according to that particular rule, which incidentally is just like the plurals of apparatus and prospectus, but unlike the plural of words like radius, which becomes radii because it’s from a different declension, and also unlike genus and corpus, which go to genera and corpora respectively because they are from still another declension. And please don’t ask me about octopus, since it’s Greek not Latin, and we do not care to offend any sensitive octopedal feelings. :-) Wouldn’t it be much easier to simply s/$/es/?

A word to the wise: don’t use fancy forms out of yesteryear unless you really REALLY do know how they work(ed). It just sounds silly.

* Message-ID: <5g2fu0$jve$1@csnews.cs.colorado.edu> in comp.lang.perl.misc, March 11, 1997.

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It seems "status" is uncountable.

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protected by RegDwigнt Sep 27 '11 at 8:57


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