Mike Cherba wrote:
virūs is not a word.
The macron notation is a modern innovation, it is true; however, both my
Latin textbooks, my dictionary, and my reference grammar all use it.
and in any case would have only been valid if one
decides that virus is a 2nd declension noun and not 4th
I think you have your declensions reversed. Pluralizing fourth
declension nouns like passus take plurals like passūs.
>in which
situation a scholar could easily make a case that virora is an equally
valid form.
!?!
Are you extrapolating from "tempora" here? Neither a second nor a
fourth declension noun with the stem vir- would be expected to take such
a nominative plural.
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