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Subpar wrote:

RichF wrote:To be honest, I'm still up in the air on the pluralization. Sometimes it's Kronii, sometimes it Kronoses, sometimes it's Kronos, sometimes it's "Kronos units."

In general, I try to talk about only one of them at a time to avoid confusion.

-Rich

Freakin hillarious!!!

And even if you only think of one of them there are 9 synth engines ... luckily that's easy (or shall we call it enginos or enginea ?)

jimknopf wrote: Hope not to to sound like some smart alec, but I happen to know old Greek, and there the plural of masculine words with -os at the end is -oi. So the correct plural would be "Kronoi".

Call it like you like

But are proper names pluralized in the same fashion in old Greek? Because n modern English they are usually not; for example "Amy" does not become "Amies," even though "army" becomes "armies."

Felsineus brings up a good point though. Kronos is a god and as such there can only be one formal entity--as in the modern Christian "God." However to reconcile the many units out there, I would submit that just like the concept of the Holy Trinity, each individual element can be seen as part of the whole and ALL parts are ultimately one God--or Kronos.

Now that my interest is fully piqued, here is part of a discussion regarding "Eos" as the name of the VW car.

This is an irregular noun - not, for example, a second declension (-os) noun which would automatically take the nominative plural ending of -oi. Thus the form which some have suggested, ἠοῖ (êoi), is not the plural here...

(http://ask.metafilter.com/49269/An-idle ... bout-Greek)

Besides which, the ancient Greek would never have pluralized Kronos, so the word Kronoi would not exist in the vocabulary in the first place.

Somewhat of a digression... but as I started this thread, then I guess it's my prerogative

Maybe as forum members we should run a thread "what should the plural of Kronos be known as furthermore". We could take suggestions for a few weeks, and then collate them into a poll and let "the people" decide which one they prefer !


My own personal grammatically-incorrect suggestion, which started off this discussion, is "Kron-i"

Cheers.

iix.