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English - Plural?[edit]
Does the term have a plural?
There are names like "Zeus Olympios" (en:w:Zeus#Roles and epithets) and from those names one could make up a plural like *Zeuses. It appears that the English already made up the plural making it attestable for wiktionary. Examples:
- H. S. Versnel, Coping With the Gods: Wayward Readings in Greek Theology, 2011: "Three manifestations of one Zeus, three different Zeuses? How would the Corinthians have referred to them? As 'the three Zeuses'?", and in the notes "this Apollo is viewed as a singular (and superior) Apollo as distinct from all other Apollines."
- Ken Dowden, Zeus: Gods and Heroes of the Ancient World, 2006: "This explains for instance a Zeus Aenesios of Mt Ainos on Kephallenia, the Zeuses who we see dominating mountains at the heart of states (pp.68-71), and a number of Zeuses, particularly in Boeotia, who are called Keraios, Karaios, Karios."
- Omnibus (snippet): "There are many different aspects of Zeus, almost, in fact, different Zeuses."
Only simply adding a plural ({{en-proper noun|es}})) is somewhat contradicting to the meaning, somewhat misleading. Should there be a usage note? Is it a second meaning, maybe even a common noun? -84.161.14.134 22:41, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
- Added. I don't think much of such entries but we do have them, especially on surnames, and you can speak of e.g. "two Londons, the geographic and the cultural". Equinox ◑ 22:55, 6 April 2018 (UTC)