[comp.protocols.kerberos] Plural of Kerberos

huitema@jerry.inria.fr (Christian Huitema) (11/13/89)

The plural of Kerberos is often written "kerberi" in the documentation,
e.g. "interconnecting several kerberi". That sounds like a bit un-greek
to me...

kolk@SMILEY.STANFORD.EDU (Dan Kolkowitz) (11/15/89)

On this extremely important point:  the "os" ending is normally the masculine,
nominative ending for a noun in classical greek.  The corresponding nominative 
plural ending is "oi" (we all know of, and most of us are a part of, the 
hoi polloi-- plural of "hos pollos").  I don't know if there really is a 
plural of kerberos, since it is a proper name, but it probably should be 
kerberoi instead of kerberi.  

Dan