Plurale tantum
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A plurale tantum is a noun that appears only in the plural form and does not have a singular variant for referring to a single object. In a less strict usage of the term, it can also refer to nouns wh
Even a single item is called scissors (the singular form scissor is sometimes used in India).
'Putting on pants' is correct, but 'putting on a pant' may sound odd.
Fasces
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A fasces is a bound bundle of wooden rods, often, but not always, including an axe with its blade emerging. The fasces is an Italian symbol that had its origin in the Etruscan civilization and was pas
Plurale tantum
…Finnish häät 'wedding'), or to liquids (for example, Hebrew מַיִם (mayim) and Chichewa madzí, both 'water'). A bilingual example is the Latin word fasces that was brought into English; when referring to the symbol of authority, it is a plurale tantum noun in both languages. In English, some plurale tantum…
Aquila (Legionary eagle), toga figure, and fasces on reverse side of coinage
Earliest depiction of a fasces, c. 610 BC, discovered as a grave good in Vetulonia in 1897
Denarius minted by Marcus Junius Brutus depicting a personification of Libertas on left and Lucius Junius Brutus with lictors carrying bladed fasces on right
Rome, cloister of San Paolo, outside wall: marble panel depicting six fasces.