virus – English noun declension

English noun forms of virus

Noun: virus
Singularvirus
Pluralviruses; viri; virii

Sample Sentences

  • Viruses are the smallest and most simplified forms of life. [2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 64:]
  • Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola. [2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:]
  • Meronym: virion (individual particle)
  • Some viruses, such as norovirus, cause sporadic outbreaks of gastroenteritis.
  • Under electron microscopy, a few viruses were seen floating near the cells.
  • Not much virus was detectable on a nucleic acid test; the viral load was very low.
  • Unless professionally inspected, they [plants] may also carry along unseen pests and diseases (particularly small insects and microbes such as virus or bacteria) whose populations might explode catastrophically in new locations. [2006, Norman E. Borlaug, Anthony Cunningham, Jane I. Guyer, Hans R. Herren, Calestous Juma, Akinlawon Mabogunje, Barbara Underwood, Montague Yudelman, chapter 1, in Lost Crops of Africa: Volume 2: Vegetables (U.S. National Research Council Consensus Study Report) (non-fiction), Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, →DOI, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2021, page xviii:]
  • He's got a virus and had to stay home from school.
  • Brazil, that inferno where every budding flower and every buzzing bluebottle fly bears a lascivious virus. [1890, Aluísio Azevedo, The Slum:]
  • Wait a minute! Is this one of those virus emails?! [2004 November 15, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #118: virus”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):]
  • I am tired of the mind viruses that are crippling people living in the western world — especially in my own nation. Sadly, Australia is becoming known as a nation of whingers. [2011, Pat Mesiti, The $1 Million Reason to Change Your Mind:]

Nouns inflected like virus

virus,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *weys-
3. Proto-Indo-European *wisós
4. Proto-Italic *weizos
5. Latin vīrusbor.
6. Middle English virus
7. English virus
8. From Middle English virus, from Latin vīrus (“poison, slime, venom”), via rhotacism from Proto-Italic *weizos, from Proto-Indo-European *wisós (“fluidity, slime, poison”). First use in the computer context by David Gerrold in his 1972 book When HARLIE Was One. See: Latin Nouns 'vīrus'.

Verbs referencing "virus"

Czech Nouns vir, Dutch Nouns virus.