A Latin lesson for a friend
omnibus = for everyone; ignoramus = we do not know
So, not being nouns in Latin, they don’t form plurals ending in -i. You might say, “omnibi are for ignorami”.
There are English speakers who decline to decline English nouns, whether or not they came from Latin. Two mathematicians, invited to attend “a series of colloquia and symposia dealing with some well-known conundra”, replied we are not going to sit on our ba and do sa.
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