Virii vs Virid - What's the difference?
virii | virid |
(proscribed) (virus)
(rare) A virid colour.
* 1991 , Doris Mary Stenton, English Society in the Early Middle Ages , Penguin Books,
* 1994 , Paul U. Unschuld, Learn to Read Chinese , volume 1, Paradigm Publications,
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Green, verdant.
* 1858 , James Macpherson, The Highlander , Canto IV,
* 1929 , , Chivalry , 2006,
* 1977 , (Angela Carter), The Passion of New Eve
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As nouns the difference between virii and virid
is that virii is irregular plural of virus while virid is a virid colour.As an adjective virid is
green, verdant.virii
English
Noun
(head)Usage notes
* The plural (virii), though common, is based on a misunderstanding of Latin. There is no example of a plural for the word virus in Latin.References
* (Plural of virus)virid
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) viridis, from .Noun
(en noun)page 173:
- In January 1208 the king ordered for a chaplain a robe of virid or burnet with a hood of coney skin ‘like our other chaplains’,
page 249:
- (Among the colors) the five types of virid , red, yellow, white, and black are distinguished;
Adjective
(en adjective)page 52,
- The palace here, and there a virid mound, / Confine a flow'ry spot of grassy ground.
page 135,
- Virid fields would heave brownly under their ploughs; they would find that with practice it was almost as easy to chuckle as it was to cringe.
- His protruberant eyeballs were veined with red like certain kinds of rare marble. He urged me to meditate upon the virid line of the whirling universe.