different between viri vs virid

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

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin viridis, from vire? (“I am green”). Doublet of vert.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v???d/

Noun

virid (plural virids)

1. (rare) A green colour.
   • 1991, Doris Mary Stenton, English Society in the Early Middle Ages, Penguin Books, page 173:

     In January 1208 the king ordered for a chaplain a robe of virid or burnet with a hood of coney skin ‘like our other chaplains’, […]

   • 1994, Paul U. Unschuld, Learn to Read Chinese, volume 1, Paradigm Publications, page 249:

     (Among the colors) the five types of virid, red, yellow, white, and black are distinguished; […]

Adjective

virid (comparative more virid, superlative most virid)

1. Green, verdant.
   • 1858, James Macpherson, The Highlander, Canto IV, page 52,

     The palace here, and there a virid mound, / Confine a flow'ry spot of grassy ground.

   • 1929, James Branch Cabell, Chivalry, 2006, page 135,

     Virid fields would heave brownly under their ploughs; they would find that with practice it was almost as easy to chuckle as it was to cringe.

   • 1977, Angela Carter, The Passion of New Eve

     His protruberant eyeballs were veined with red like certain kinds of rare marble. He urged me to meditate upon the virid line of the whirling universe.

Related terms

• viridescence
• viridescent
• viridian
• viridity

See also

• Appendix:Colors

Etymology 2

From virus +? -id or from translingual viridae (“a grouping of viruses”), from virus +? -idae, from Latin virus (“poison”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?va???d/

Noun

virid (plural virids)

1. (usually in the plural) Any of a group of related viruses.