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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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jjk166
636 days ago
Virus actually is a latin word, but the plural is vira.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/virus#Latin
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Rebelgecko
636 days ago
The plural of the Latin virus is vira (second declension etc etc). However viri means "men"
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nerdponx
636 days ago
It is in fact "viri".
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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/virus#Latin