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Originally Posted by Tezcatlipoca
The modern English plural of "virus" is "viruses".
"virus" comes from Latin, but there is no plural for it in Latin.
The Latin word "viri" is the plural of "vir" (man) - i.e. "viri" = men
"virii" would be the plural of "virius", which doesn't actually exist.
All explained here: http://www.perl.com/language/misc/virus.html |
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