quus

But intuitively our language is not that indeterminate: ˜plus™ determinately does not mean quus.

The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009

˜Plus™ means plus rather than quus simply because plus is more natural than quus.

The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009

As far as our usage dispositions go, ˜rabbit™ could mean undetached rabbit part, ˜vat™ could mean vat image, and ˜plus™ could mean quus.

The Problem of the Many Weatherson, Brian 2009

But asawfulas he had caught his base semenoyous sarchnaktiers to combuccinate upon the silipses of his aspillouts and the acheporeoozers of his haggy-own pneumax to synerethetise with the breadchestviousness of his sweeatovular ducose sofarfully the loggerthuds of his sakel-laries were fond at variance with the synodals of his somepooliom and his babskissed nepogreasymost got the hoof from his philio-quus. —

Finnegans Wake 2006

Nouns ending in the Nominative Singular in - vus, - vum, - quus, exhibited two types of inflection in the classical Latin, -- an earlier and a later, -- as follows: --

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

II. £quus Gothicae caela - turae, fub quo ftclla et delphinus.

Lexicon vniversae rei nvmariae vetervm et praecipve Graecorvm ac Romanorvm: cvm observationibvs ... Johann Christoph Rasche 1785

_steep_; necessārius, _necessary_.a. Adjectives in - quus, of course, do not come under this rule.

New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

Historical usage cannot distinguish, for instance, between the operation “plus” which yields “2024″as the result of summing “1632″ and “392″, and another operation, call it “quus”, which yields that result for all t prior to August 2008, but yields a smaller sum for t after that date.

Hillary on “the Math” 2008