The singular of data in Latin is datum, but in English it’s data. It is a mass noun where it’s not easy to break it into individual, countable pieces. Something like sand is almost never represented in ite plural form of sands.

    • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 months ago

      Fair enough. But we have a number of English word from Latin that we pluralize using English rules. Campuses and stadiums come to mind.