Noun: vir
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension: Second
Genitive
| Singular | virī |
| Plural | virōrum; virum |
Accusative
| Singular | virum |
| Plural | virōs |
Sample Sentences
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Arma virumque cano. (I sing of arms and a man.) [29 BCE – 19 BCE, Vergilius, Aeneis 1.1]
Nouns inflected like vir
vir,
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *wiros, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós. Displaced Proto-Italic *nēr. Cognates include Sanskrit वीर (vīrá), Old Prussian wijrs, Lithuanian vyras, Latvian vīrs, Old Irish fer, Old Norse verr, Ossetian ир (ir, “Ossetians”) and Old English wer (English were-; also see world). See: Latvian Nouns '
vīrs', Old Norse Nouns '
verr', Old English Nouns '
wer'.
Verbs referencing "vir"
Irish Nouns
fear, English Nouns
wer, Middle English Nouns
wer, Old English Nouns
wer, Galician Nouns
brilla, Latvian Nouns
vīrs, Gothic Nouns
𐍅𐌰𐌹𐍂, Galician Nouns
virilla.
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