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by Aardwolf 636 days ago
So the plural of virus, if it wouldn't have been viruses, would be viri, not virii? I think for octopus I'd have intuitively thought octopi, but for virus I'd have thought virii.
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Virus actually is a latin word, but the plural is vira.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/virus#Latin

The plural of the Latin virus is vira (second declension etc etc). However viri means "men"
It is in fact "viri".