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An index (pl.: usually indexes, more rarely indices) is a list of words or phrases ('headings') ... In Latin, the plural form of the word is indices.
What is the plural of the word "index" in the phrase "stock market index". Some sources use "indices" while others use "indexes". --Kalbasa 20:01, 18 December 2008 (UTC) I'd say you've just answered your own question. —An gr 20:29, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
The plural form of a foreign word may be modified to fit English norms more conveniently, like using "indexes" as the plural of index, rather than indices, as in Latin. The word "opera" (itself the plural form of the Latin word opus ) is understood in English to be a singular noun, so it has received an English plural form, "operas".
The plural may be used to emphasise the plurality of the attribute, especially in British English but very rarely in American English: a careers advisor, a languages expert. The plural is also more common with irregular plurals for various attributions: women killers are women who kill, whereas woman killers are those who kill women.
A price index (plural: "price indices" or "price indexes") is a normalized average (typically a weighted average) of price relatives for a given class of goods or services in a given region, during a given interval of time.
The plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, or PL), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical category of number.
Typically, dementia is associated with classic symptoms like confusion and memory loss. But new research finds that there could be a less obvious risk factor out there: your cholesterol levels ...
4 Grammaticality judgement: "I didn’t expect your mother to like the picture; but I did you."