Saturday, November 24, 2012

Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: virus

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Nov 24th 2012, 22:05

Usage notes:

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====Usage notes====
 
====Usage notes====
 
* The plural is often believed to be {{term|viri|lang=en}} or even {{term|virii|lang=en}}, but neither is correct Latin and both are [[neologism|neologistic]] [[W:Folk etymology|folk etymology]]. The word has no plural in Latin as it is a mass noun, like ''oxygen'' or ''sunlight''.
 
* The plural is often believed to be {{term|viri|lang=en}} or even {{term|virii|lang=en}}, but neither is correct Latin and both are [[neologism|neologistic]] [[W:Folk etymology|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.
 
   
 
====Hyponyms====
 
====Hyponyms====

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