Question: What is the plural form of "status"?

Answer: 
In Latin, the nominative plural of *[status](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/status#Latin)* as a 4th declension noun is *statūs*. This would be uncomfortable in English, and so the English plural is *statuses*.

The Latin adjective has a different masculine nominative plural of *statī*, but then means something more like the English *static*.
Many moons ago, our own [tchrist](https://english.stackexchange.com/users/2085/tchrist) [wrote](http://diswww.mit.edu/bloom-picayune.mit.edu/perl/6460)\*

> 
> … If for some bizarre reason you simply cannot bring yourself to
>  use the normal English plural form “statuses”, then you must learn
>  that the true plural of status is statUs, with a macro[n] over the u
>  [*i.e.*, statūs]
>  and pronounced “statoose”. That’s because status comes from the
>  Latin declension that forms plurals according to that particular
>  rule, which incidentally is just like the plurals of apparatus
>  and prospectus, but unlike the plural of words like radius,
>  which becomes radii because it’s from a different declension,
>  and also unlike genus and corpus, which go to genera and corpora
>  respectively because they are from still another declension.
>  And please don’t ask me about octopus, since it’s Greek not Latin,
>  and we do not care to offend any sensitive octopedal feelings. :-)
>  Wouldn’t it be much easier to simply `s/$/es/`?
> 
> 
> A word to the wise: don’t use fancy forms out of yesteryear unless you 
>  really REALLY do know how they work(ed). It just sounds silly.
> 
> 
> 

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