different between vire vs viri

English

Etymology

From Old French vire, from virer (“to turn”). Compare veer, vireton.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /va??(?)/

Noun

vire (plural vires)

1. An arrow, having a rotary motion, formerly used with the crossbow.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Gower to this entry?)

Verb

vire (third-person singular simple present vires, present participle viring, simple past and past participle vired)

1. to transfer a surplus from one account to cover a deficit in another, to make a virement.
   • 1996, Derek Glover & Sue Law, Managing Professional Development in Education:

     For example, in 1993, only 8 per cent of the survey schools said that they were likely to vire funds if problems arose during the year.

   • 2005, House of Commons (United Kingdom), Prison Education Report:

     Prison education budgets were placed in the hands of prison governors who could vire money to other areas of the prisons.

   • 2012, David Maclaren, "Changing the Civil Service", Managing Public Services:

     Because we cannot vire money between budgets, we buy more machines than we need, but cannot pay anyone to run them!

Anagrams

• Iver, iver, rive, vier

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?v?r?]

Noun

vire

1. vocative singular of vir

Finnish

Etymology

viri +? -e. Related to Estonian vire and Votic vire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ire/, [??ire?]
• Rhymes: -ire
• Syllabification: vi?re

Noun

vire

1. A light breeze or the small, disappearing waves on top of water produced by a breeze.

   Synonym: tuulenvire

2. A shed (area between upper and lower warp yarns in a loom)

   Synonym: viriö

3. (music) The state or condition of being correctly tuned; tune.

4. (music) The overall pitch an instrument is tuned to, relative to a standard frequency; tuning.

Declension

Derived terms

• olla vireessä
• olla vireillä

Anagrams

• revi, rive, veri

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /vi?/
• Homophones: virent, vires

Etymology 1

deverbal of virer

Noun

vire f (plural vires)

1. (Switzerland) A small ledge on the side of a mountain

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

vire

1. first/third-person singular present indicative of virer
2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of virer
3. second-person singular imperative of virer

Anagrams

• ivre, rive, rivé

Galician

Verb

vire

1. first-person singular present subjunctive of virar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive of virar

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i.re?/, [?u???e?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.re/, [?vi???]

Verb

vir?

1. second-person singular present active imperative of vire?

Portuguese

Verb

vire

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of virar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of virar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of virar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of virar

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bi?e/, [?bi.?e]

Verb

vire

1. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of virar.
2. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of virar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of virar.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va??a?/

Noun

viri

1. (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. Both viri, and the more erroneous form virii, appear jokingly or in error in English, especially in the computing sense.

Further reading

• Plural of virus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Plural form of words ending in -us

References

Catalan

Verb

viri

1. third-person singular imperative form of virar
2. third-person singular present subjunctive form of virar
3. first-person singular present subjunctive form of virar

Finnish

Etymology

From the same root as vireä; vireä +? -i.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??iri/, [??iri]
• Rhymes: -iri
• Syllabification: vi?ri

Noun

viri

1. small ripples
2. breath of wind

Declension

Synonyms

• (ripples): kare

Anagrams

• irvi, rivi

Ido

Noun

viri

1. plural of viro

Italian

Verb

viri

1. second-person singular present indicative of virare
2. first-person singular present subjunctive of virare
3. second-person singular present subjunctive of virare
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of virare
5. third-person singular imperative of virare

Anagrams

• rivi

Latin

Etymology 1

Forms of vir.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i.ri?/, [?u???i?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.ri/, [?vi??i]

Noun

vir?

1. nominative plural of vir
2. genitive singular of vir
3. vocative plural of vir

Etymology 2

Forms of virus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?u?i?.ri?/, [?u?i??i?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?vi.ri/, [?vi??i]

Noun

v?r?

1. genitive singular of v?rus

Shona

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-b??d??.

Adjective

-virí

1. two

Inflection

Veps

Etymology

From the verb viritada.

Noun

viri

1. match (tool to make fire)

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “??????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika