viri
See also: vīri
English
Pronunciation
Noun
viri
- (proscribed) Incorrect plural of virus, which in Latin amounts to a singulare tantum.
Usage notes
In historical Latin usage, no plural form of virus was attested, but both viri, and the erroneous form virii, appear jokingly or in error in English, especially in the computing sense. Some Latin dictionaries, such as the revised Ainsworth, offer viri as a plural, without attestation.[1] The acceptable and unpretentious English plural is viruses, particularly because the modern meaning has little to do with any of the meanings it originally had in Latin.
Further reading
- Plural of virus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Plural form of words ending in -us
References
Finnish
Etymology
Related to vireä.
Noun
viri
Declension
Inflection of viri (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | viri | virit | ||
genitive | virin | virien | ||
partitive | viriä | virejä | ||
illative | viriin | vireihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | viri | virit | ||
accusative | nom. | viri | virit | |
gen. | virin | |||
genitive | virin | virien | ||
partitive | viriä | virejä | ||
inessive | virissä | vireissä | ||
elative | viristä | vireistä | ||
illative | viriin | vireihin | ||
adessive | virillä | vireillä | ||
ablative | viriltä | vireiltä | ||
allative | virille | vireille | ||
essive | virinä | vireinä | ||
translative | viriksi | vireiksi | ||
abessive | virittä | vireittä | ||
instructive | — | virein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Synonyms
- (ripples): kare
Anagrams
Ido
Noun
viri
Italian
Verb
viri
- second-person singular present indicative of virare
- first-person singular present subjunctive of virare
- second-person singular present subjunctive of virare
- third-person singular present subjunctive of virare
- third-person singular imperative of virare
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology 1
Forms of vir.
Noun
(deprecated template usage) virī
Etymology 2
Forms of virus.
Noun
(deprecated template usage) vīrī
Veps
Etymology
From the verb viritada.
Noun
viri
- match (tool to make fire)
Inflection
References
Categories:
- English 2-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English non-lemma forms
- English noun forms
- English proscribed terms
- English irregular plurals ending in "-i"
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- Ido non-lemma forms
- Ido noun forms
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian verb forms
- Latin non-lemma forms
- Latin noun forms
- Veps lemmas
- Veps nouns