Linguistic Pedantry 5

Everyone seems to have thought of the same joke at once: The sequel to Prometheus will be a James Cameron film called Prometheuses. Being the humourless pedant that I am, I just want to point out that this is wrong!

It's not Prometheii either. And nor is it Promethepode, as some geniuses have pointed out.

Prometheus is a Greek word, not Latin, and if you really want to be pedantic about the plural, you should consult the chart:



	Προμηθεύς
	sg.	pl.
nominative	Προμηθεύς	Προμηθεῖς
genitive	Προμηθεως	Προμηθεων
dative	Προμηθεῖ	Προμηθεῦσι
accusative	Προμηθεᾱ	Προμηθέᾱς
vocative	Προμηθεῦ	Προμηθεῖς

So, 'to be called ****' would mean that Prometheus would be in the accusative plural, which makes it Prometheas.