virus

Borrowed from Latin virus (“poison, slime, venom”). First use in the computer context by David Gerrold in his 1972 book When HARLIE Was One.

• (UK, US) enPR: vīʹrəs, IPA^(key): /ˈvaɪ̯(ə)ɹɪs/

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• Rhymes: -aɪɹɪs

virus (countable and uncountable, plural viruses or (proscribed) viri or (proscribed) virii)

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The virions that carry the Marburg virus

1. (archaic) Venom, as produced by a poisonous animal etc.
   • 1890, Aluísio Azevedo, The Slum:

     Brazil, that inferno where every budding flower and every buzzing bluebottle fly bears a lascivious virus.

2. A submicroscopic, non-cellular structure consisting of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that requires a living host cell to replicate, and often causes disease in the host organism.
   • 2013 May-June, Katie L. Burke, “In the News”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 193:

     Bats host many high-profile viruses that can infect humans, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Ebola.

   • 2001, Leslie Iversen, Drugs: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford 2001, p. 64)

     Viruses are the smallest and most simplified forms of life.

3. A disease caused by these organisms.

   He caught a virus and had to stay home from school.

4. (computing) A program which can covertly transmit itself between computers via networks (especially the Internet) or removable storage such as disks, often causing damage to systems and data; also computer virus.

• See also Thesaurus:virus

• (computing): malware

• DNA virus
• RNA virus

• virion
• viroid
• viral

• Japanese: バイラス (bairasu)
• Korean: 바이러스 (baireoseu)

• prion

• Plural of virus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Virus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Computer virus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Virus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Borrowed from Latin virus.

virus m (plural virus)

1. virus

Borrowed from Latin virus.

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ɾus/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ɾus/

virus m (plural virus)

1. virus

• viral
• víric

Borrowed from Latin virus.

virus m

1. virus

• virový
• virální
• antivirový

• virus in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• virus in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Borrowed from Latin virus.

virus c or n (singular definite virussen or virusset, plural indefinite virus or virusser or vira, plural definite virussene or virusserne or viraene)

1. virus

Borrowed from Latin virus.

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• Hyphenation: vi‧rus

virus n (plural virussen, diminutive virusje n)

1. (microbiology) virus
2. (computer science) virus

Like most Latin borrowings, this word kept its original Latin gender (neuter); it is one of the few words ending in -us which is not masculine.

• norovirus

Borrowed from Latin virus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋirus/, [ˈʋirus̠], IPA^(key): /ˈʋiːrus/, [ˈʋiːrus̠]

virus

1. virus
2. (computer security) virus

• virsu

Borrowed from Latin virus.

• IPA^(key): /vi.ʁys/

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virus m (plural virus)

1. virus

• “virus” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Borrowed from Latin virus (“poison, slime, venom”).

virus m (plural virus)

1. virus (pathogen)
2. computer virus

virus (plural viruses)

1. virus

• virusal

Borrowed from Latin virus.

virus m

1. virus

Via rhotacism from Proto-Italic *weisos, from Proto-Indo-European *weys- (“fluidity, slime, poison”). Cognates include Sanskrit विष (víṣa), Ancient Greek ἰός (iós), and Tocharian B wase.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈwiː.rus/, [ˈwiː.rʊs]

vīrus n (genitive vīrī); second declension

1. slimy liquid, slime
2. poison, venom

Second declension, nominative/accusative/vocative in -us.

• There is also the heteroclitic genitive singular vīrus.

• vīrōsus
• vīrulentus

• (poison): venēnum

• virus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• virus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• virus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to vent one's anger, spite on some one: virus acerbitatis suae effundere in aliquem (De Amic. 23. 87)
    
  • (ambiguous) many learned men; many scholars: multi viri docti, or multi et ii docti (not multi docti)
    
  • (ambiguous) to separate (of the woman): repudium remittere viro (Dig. 24. 3)
    
  • (ambiguous) statesmen: viri rerum civilium, rei publicae gerendae periti or viri in re publica prudentes
    
  • (ambiguous) men of rank and dignity: viri clari et honorati (De Sen. 7. 22)
    
• virus in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly

• rivus

virus

1. virus

Borrowed from Latin virus.

virus n (definite singular viruset, indefinite plural virus, definite plural virusa or virusene)

1. a virus
2. a computer virus (see datavirus)

• “virus” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Borrowed from Latin virus.

virus n (definite singular viruset, indefinite plural virus, definite plural virusa)

1. a virus
2. a computer virus (see datavirus)

• “virus” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French virus, Latin virus.

virus n (plural virusuri)

1. virus

vírus m (Cyrillic spelling ви́рус)

1. (medicine) virus (DNA/RNA causing disease)
2. (computing) computer virus

Borrowed from Latin virus.

virus m (plural virus)

1. virus
2. computer virus

Borrowed from Latin virus.

virus n

1. virus