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Re:The Deal That Makes No Sense by dragonwriter on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @01:56PM (#6322510)
> Word is from Latin - Latin plural is viri.

No, that's the Latin plural of vir; viri means "men" not "poisons" ("virus" means "poison" in Latin.) [1]

http://www.google.com/#q=translate+viri+from+latin+to+englis...

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Re:The Deal That Makes No Sense by singlow on Tuesday September 03, 2013 @04:06PM (#6323404)
Oops. I mistook the genitive listing in Whitaker for a plural.
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