>A bit of a correction here, although "viri" & spelling variations are becoming popular as the plural (I haven't found a major anti-virus company using it yet though), it is not correct Latin :
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>"viri" is the plural form of "vir" meaning "man" - in Latin "virus" was a word a bit like sheep - it was used unchanged in singular & plural form. These types of words from latin tend to use "-es" to denote the plural, so "viruses" is the correct plural form of "virus".
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http://homepages.tesco.net/~J.deBoynePollard/FGA/plural-of-virus.htmlOk, I see. Thanks.
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