Talk:Eximus/@comment-46.144.2.168-20191129133420

The bit where it says "the plural is Eximera and not Eximii" is flat-out wrong.

Eximius is an adjective (eximere is part of a verb meaning 'to remove'; I have no idea why the writer thinks it's part of this word) in the masculine form, the plural of which would be eximii. If Eximus is coming from this word, and since it's generally referring to people (robotics excepted), it should remain in the masculine.

There are countless masculine nouns ending in -us and -ius in Latin, and the overwhelming majority have a plural -i/-ii.

The -era ending for the plural is a feature only of the neuter gender, and it's not even the most common ending for a neuter -us noun (which are somewhat uncommon). For example, Eximium is the neuter form of Eximius; in the plural, it would only change to Eximia.

There is an argument for using Eximera as the plural of non-gendered eximus units, like Ospreys and Rollers; but to dismiss the Eximi plural out of hand seems to me to be based on a misunderstanding both of the root word and Latin declension as a whole.