solidus – English noun declension

Noun: solidus

Singular	solidus
Plural	solidi; soliduses

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like solidus

renal calculus, pylorus, prolapsus, parahippocampal gyrus, hyperradius, succubus, scarabaeus, colossus, eucalyptus, papyrus, disfocus, polypus, phallus, solidus, silurus, lenticular nucleus, dinosaurus, chorepiscopus, ankylosaurus, fusiform gyrus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. From Middle English solidus, from classical Latin solidus (“solid”), see below. Doublet of sol, sold, soldo, solid, sou, and xu.
2. In numismatic and weight senses, via medieval Latin solidus (“various coins”), from Late Latin solidus (“a gold coin of the Roman Empire”). In chemical sense, via German Solidus, coined by H.W.B. Roozeboom in his 1899 Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, Stöchiometrie, und Verwandtschaftslehre (XXX, page 387).
3. In typography, from the shilling mark originally being an abbreviation (a long s ⟨ſ⟩), of Medieval Latin solidus meaning shilling. See: Latin Nouns 'solidus', Latin Nouns 'solidus'.