The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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But w and y maekes sae soft a mynt that it is hard to perceave, and therfoer did the latines symboliz them with the symbol of the vouales.
From Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
He shall shewe, that that whyche the grekes cal proboscida, or his snout, || the latines call his hande, because wyth that he reacheth hys meate.
From The Education of Children by Richard Sherry
Townes they plant none, nor other standing buildings, but haue walking houses, which the latines call Veij, built vpon wheeles like a shepheards cottage.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 by Richard Hakluyt
Of this we, as the latines, hes almost no use.
From Of the Orthographie and Congruitie of the Britan Tongue A Treates, noe shorter than necessarie, for the Schooles by Henry Benjamin Wheatley
In ure lauerdes luue þe is feader of frumschaft. ant on his deorewurðe sunes nome. ant o þes hali gastes. þ̵ glideð of ham baðen. alle lewede men. þ̵ understonden ne mahen latines ledene.
From Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts by Joseph Hall
