virus

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See also Virus, virüs, and vírus

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Latin virus (“poison, slime, venom”). First use in the computer context by David Gerrold in his 1972 book When HARLIE Was One.

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[edit] Noun

virus (plural viruses)

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A number of filamentous Marburg virions
  1. (archaic) Venom, as produced by a poisonous animal etc.
  2. (pathology, microbiology, virology) A submicroscopic infectious organism, now understood to be a non-cellular structure consisting of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat. It requires a living cell to replicate, and often causes disease in the host organism.
    • 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 64)
      Viruses are the smallest and most simplified forms of life.
  3. (computing) A computer virus.

[edit] Usage notes

  • The plural is often believed to be viri or even virii, but neither is correct Latin and both are neologistic folk etymology. The word has no plural in Latin as it is a mass noun, like oxygen or sunlight.
  • There is disagreement over whether a virus can be classed as a living organism.

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[edit] Translations

DNA/RNA causing disease
computer virus — see computer virus

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[edit] Czech

[edit] Noun

virus m.

  1. virus

[edit] Declension

    declension of virus
singular plural
nominative virus viry
genitive viru virů
dative viru virům
accusative virus viry
vocative vire viry
locative viru virech
instrumental virem viry

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[edit] Danish

[edit] Noun

virus c. n. (singular definite virussen or virusset, plural indefinite virus or virusser or vira, plural definite virussene or virusserne or viraene)

  1. virus

[edit] Dutch

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[edit] Noun

virus n. (plural virussen, diminutive virusje)

  1. (microbiology) virus
  2. (computer science) virus

[edit] Finnish

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  • IPA: [ˈʋirus]

[edit] Noun

virus

  1. virus

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Declension of virus (type vastaus)
singular plural
nominative virus virukset
genitive viruksen virusten
viruksien
partitive virusta viruksia
accusative virus
viruksen		 virukset
inessive viruksessa viruksissa
elative viruksesta viruksista
illative virukseen viruksiin
adessive viruksella viruksilla
ablative virukselta viruksilta
allative virukselle viruksille
essive viruksena viruksina
translative virukseksi viruksiksi
instructive – viruksin
abessive viruksetta viruksitta
comitative – viruksineen

[edit] French

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[edit] Noun

virus m. (plural virus)

  1. virus

[edit] Galician

[edit] Etymology

From Latin virus (“poison, slime, venom”).

[edit] Noun

virus m. (plural virus)

  1. virus (pathogen)
  2. computer virus

[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

virus m.

  1. virus

[edit] Latin

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[edit] Etymology

Via rhotacism from Proto-Indo-European *wisos, *wīsos, *wiHsos. Cognates include Sanskrit विष (víṣa) and Ancient Greek ἰός (ios).

[edit] Noun

vīrus (genitive vīrī); n (uncountable), second declension

  1. venom
  2. poison

[edit] Inflection

Number Singular Plural
nominative vīrus —1
genitive vīrī —
dative vīrō —
accusative vīrus —
ablative vīrō —
vocative vīrus —

1 virus is declined in the singular only.

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[edit] Portuguese

virus

[edit] Noun

virus m. (plural viruss)

  1. computer virus (a program)


This Portuguese entry was created from the translations listed at computer virus. It may be less reliable than other entries, and may be missing parts of speech or additional senses. Please also see virus in the Portuguese Wiktionary. This notice will be removed when the entry is checked. (more information) July 2009

[edit] Romanian

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virus n. (plural virusuri)

  1. virus

[edit] Declension

declension of virus
singular plural
gender n. indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative un virus virusul niște virusuri virusurile
genitive/dative unui virus virusului unor virusuri virusurilor

[edit] Serbo-Croatian

[edit] Noun

vírus m. (Cyrillic spelling ви́рус)

  1. (medicine) virus (DNA/RNA causing disease)
  2. (computing) computer virus

[edit] Declension

    declension of virus
singular plural
nominative virus virusi
genitive virusa virusa
dative virusu virusima
accusative virus viruse
vocative viruse virusi
locative virusu virusima
instrumental virusom virusima

[edit] Spanish

[edit] Etymology

From Latin virus.

[edit] Noun

virus m. (plural virus)

  1. virus, computer virus

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Noun

virus n.

  1. virus
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