Well, they are creatures of passion, aren't they? Got caught up in the moment.Does he have a passive INT debuff field? The friends were depicted as at least somewhat intelligent. It would explain why they gave out their names so easily.
Ah whoops, you are correct. Thank you.Succubi. Succubus (singular) follows the same grammatical rules as cactus/cacti (singular/plural). What this is called, I don't know. Anyway, this is cute. Big Daddy is gonna need a larger apartment soon.
It's called "pluralizing like a Latin 2nd declension noun", but there's nothing wrong with regularizing it as an English noun either. It's been used in English for over 600 years after all.Succubi. Succubus (singular) follows the same grammatical rules as cactus/cacti (singular/plural). What this is called, I don't know. Anyway, this is cute. Big Daddy is gonna need a larger apartment soon.
I see, very interesting. How does that relate to cacti though?I'm not reposting all that just for a respone
It's a strange rabbit hole to be sure, but after reading up on it I found out that it’s pluralized that way because of how English writers in medieval times were attempting to emulate Latin.It's called "pluralizing like a Latin 2nd declension noun", but there's nothing wrong with regularizing it as an English noun either. It's been used in English for over 600 years after all.
The funny thing is that while people prescriptively insist on sticking to Latin declensions for pluralization, they ignore all the changes that should be applied to different cases. And also don't pronounce the word as you would in Latin (for instance, the "-i" ending would sound like "ee" /i/, not "eye" /aj/).
We can go further down the rabbit hole: in Latin, it would more likely have been a first-declension noun, succuba (pl. succubae). The formation we got was from a parallel construction to incubus instead, even though putting an explicitly feminine noun in 2nd declension is quite unusual.
In conclusion: you really shouldn't worry about how someone pluralizes "succubus". Any attempt at trying to define a certain variant as "more correct" is pretty doomed.
Ackshually... (just learned this myself...)Succubi. Succubus (singular) follows the same grammatical rules as cactus/cacti (singular/plural). What this is called, I don't know. Anyway, this is cute. Big Daddy is gonna need a larger apartment soon.