Hi.
>> on average, there's a timelapse of 53 hours from a virii first
> For some reason, seeing "virii" is somewhat painful to my eye. I
> know, people invent fantasy plurals, like Vaxen and
> Unices/Unixen, but somehow this is worse, yes indeed, it is
> badder.
> [The singular is virus. The plural in English is viruses. In
> Latin there is no plural - it is even debatable whether virus is
> a noun in Latin - in any case it is indeclinable.]
During my medical training, it was made abundantly clear that the
plural of virus is virii. Since the whole idea of a computer virus
comes from the medical world, I'd have to assume the terminology came
with it.
I'll stick with what my training taught me.
Best wishes from Riley.
PS: Plural of bacteria is bacterium, from the same source.
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