vira

See also: Appendix:Variations of "vira"

English

Etymology

From translingual Vira or New Latin vīra.

Noun

vira (rare)

1. plural of virus
   • 1907, Annual Report of the Director of Agriculture, page 69:

     Seeing, however, that neither virus Ordinary, Tzaneen, nor Bulawayo protected completely against horse-sickness in the various parts of the Transvaal I now decided to make a combination of the two vira and to add to it the third virus, Bulawayo.

   • 1909, Report of the Government Veterinary Bacteriologist, page 24:

     Then the idea occurred to unite all these various vira and to obtain in this way a polyvalent virus which would protect against any of the vira of which it was composed, and by this means I hoped to reduce the mortality in practice.

   • 1909 January, Arnold Theiler, “The Immunity of Mules Against Horse-Sickness.”, in Transvaal Agricultural Journal, volume VII, number 26, pages 178–182:

     In order to settle the point whether an animal that had been immunised on this station would contract horse-sickness when subjected to either of the two vira, the following experiments were made:— […] Our experiments not only demonstrate the fact that the immunity obtained from one virus does not completely protect against either of the other two, but that animals immune against two of the three vira may break down when subjected to the third virus. […] The fact that polyvalent virus did not protect against all of the constituents, as it should have done, shows that in passing the polyvalent virus through a horse one or more of the vira must have been excluded from the mixture with which the horse was injected. […] Accordingly, we again decided to increase the polyvalency of the virus by introducing into it, in addition to the strains with which we have inoculated hitherto, such other strains as have broken the immunity, and, in adding to the strain of polyvalent virus the new vira of relapses, we hope to finally arrive at a virus which will give immunity against any strain of the country. […] The question may perhaps suggest itself whether an immunity of an animal can be increased by the repeated injection of different strains of vira at intervals, and the following table may prove interesting:— […]

   • 1925, Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, Collected Papers, volume 21, page 35:

     The very obvious predominance of epidermal lesions in the gross pathological anatomy of variola and vaccinia, whether spontaneous or experimentally induced, has for many years been interpreted as indicating a peculiar affinity of these vira for skin and not merely for skin-tissue as a whole, but for that portion of it which is derived from epiblast. […] Immunity to the vira in question was generally held to reside in the skin itself, and it is surprising that the demonstration by Sternberg (1892) of the fact that the serum of vaccinated animals acquired the property of neutralizing the specific virus in vitro so that a mixture of the two failed to take in a fresh animal, did so little to alter general opinion in the direction of postulating a general type of immunity, and that, too, although the presence of these viricidins or neutralizing bodies received ample confirmation from the work of Béclère, Chambon and Menard (1899) and many others.

   • 1933 December 22, L. T. Giltner, M. S. Shahan, “The Immunological Relationship of Eastern and Western Strains of Equine Encephalomyelitis Virus”, in Science, volume 78, number 2034, page 588:

     Neutralization tests, utilizing a hyperimmune horse serum and a hyperimmune rabbit serum, were conducted with the two vira. […] The technique of preparing virus suspensions, mixing and holding serum-virus inocula, was identical to that employed by Howitt in neutralization tests of poliomyelitis and equine encephalomyelitis vira. / A series of three tests was conducted, using S. D. and Md vira on the same days, with controls in the form of normal serum-virus mixtures and saline-virus mixtures of the same virus dilution as that in the immune serum-virus mixtures. […] The Md virus disease in the guinea-pigs is of a more acute type than the S. D. virus infection and the vira show certain immunological differences.

   • 1940, J. Mulder, “The Influenza Epidemic of February—March 1939 in the Garrison at Groningen.”, in Acta Medica Scandinavica:

     Table 4 shows the results of these tests, which show convincingly that the vira are related, as could be expected, but certainly not identical.

   • 1944, Gustav Seiffert, Marion Lee Taylor, Virus Diseases in Man, Animal, and Plant, page 65:

     Further virus is found most frequently in the tissues to which it has especial affinity, for ex. in the lymph of vaccine pustules and of the blisters of hoof and mouth disease, in the brain cells in the case of neurotrop vira.

   • 1990 February, S. Zvizdić, K. Serić, S. Radović, I. Selak, “Isolation of viruses from autopsy material during the Coxsackie virus epidemic in Sarajevo in 1985”, in Journal of the Academy of Medical Sciences of Bosnia and Herzegovina:

     In this paper were presented results of isolation of vira from some organs of the dead newborn infants during the epidemy Coxsackie B virosis in Sarajevo in 1985. 12 newborn died. Obduction was done in seven newborn. From the seven obducated, in six were isolated Coxsackie B-3 vira from heart, lungs, brain, liquor, blood, heart blood but the attempts of isolation of the vira from intestine and from pericardial liquor did not succeed.

   • 1994 June 2, Jann Hau, Handbook of Laboratory Animal Science: Animal Models, CRC Press, page 115:

     The difference in diabetogenic properties of the D and B variants might, however, be related to the affinity of the vira for beta-cell receptors. Thus, a study has shown that up to six times more EMC-D than EMC-B virus attaches to primary beta cells extracted from male ICR-Swiss mice.

   • 2001 July 25, Peter Larsen, “Re: Virus WARNING to AAPLS”, in alt.audio.pro.live-sound (Usenet), message-ID <3B5EBF2F.3000107@yahoo.com>:

     > *ducks* :) / Nothing to duck about, cross-platform vira are as yet rare, however complety^[sic] possible in the newer parsed languages. Vira have come up that target also Netscape. […] If people simply reviewed their outbound folder prior to sending many of the vira would have been less able to spread like wildfire.

   • 2009, Johan Moan, Arne Dahlback, LiWei Ma, Asta Juzeniene, “Influenza, solar radiation and vitamin D”, in Dermato-Endocrinology:

     Additionally, the question of whether it is the host or the vira/bacteria that exhibit seasonality arises.

   • 2017 December 21, Gerson Silva Paiva, Anti-aids cocktail consisting of an anti-tumoral compound, a p-glycoprotein inhibitor, and an anti-viral agent, US Patent 20170360880 , page 1, column 2:

     In accordance with the attached figure, the cocktail according to the present invention is an association of a commercial anti-tumoral medicament, such as doxorubicin (1), whose function is to destroy the hiding-place of the vira (i.e., the lymphocytes) by lowering the count of lymphocytes to zero in the blood by acting as an immunosuppressor, an inhibitor of P-glycoprotein, such as tariquidar (2), whose purpose is to maximize the preceding anti-tumoral compound in the lymphocytes, and an anti-virus of the viricide type, such as N,N-dichloro-2,2-dimethyltaurin (NVC-422) (3), which acts directly on the virus, whose purpose is to eliminate completely the Aids virus in the organism. […] Cocktail according to claim 1, characterized in that it eliminates completely the HIV virus in the organism by the destroying action of the lymphocytes TCD4+ (the hiding-place of the HIV virus) by the anti-tumoral compound and by the inhibitor of glycoprotein P, exposing the virus later to the direct action of the viricide agent, thereby eliminating completely all the vira in the organism.

   • 2019 March 17, Dan Kehoe, “Bend, Oregon Written Testimony For Parental Choice”, in Testimony in Support of SB 357 Before the Joint Committee on Ways & Means:

     The vira that were around the Portland metropolitan/US population during my education were measles, mumps, chicken pox and polio. […] Early childhood had three common vira, measles, mumps and chicken pox, they were called early childhood diseases. […] As my siblings and myself had no input on what or how my parents deemed the best plan for inoculation/immunization against the vira was going to be, they along with the overall majority of parents CHOSE, not legislated. […] I knew no one that ever got any of the vira again.

Anagrams

• Ravi, Riva, Viar, riva, vair, vari

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈbi.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [ˈvi.ɾə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈvi.ɾa]

Etymology 1

Perhaps from Vulgar Latin *veria, from Latin verua (“railing around an altar or tomb”).

Noun

vira f (plural vires)

1. (archaic) dart
2. welt (strip that strengthens a seam, especially between the upper and the sole of a shoe)
3. (Valencia) (of bacon) lean

Derived terms

• virot

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vira

1. inflection of virar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “vira” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “vira”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “vira” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

vira

1. continuous

   Synonyms: toqtamadan, turmadan

Esperanto

Etymology

From viro (“man”) +‎ -a.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈvira]

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ira
• Hyphenation: vi‧ra

Adjective

vira (accusative singular viran, plural viraj, accusative plural virajn)

1. male

   Coordinate term: ina

   La vira sekso ofte signiĝas per la simbolo ♂. ― The male sex is often signified by the symbol ♂.

French

Verb

vira

1. third-person singular past historic of virer

Anagrams

• ravi, riva, vair, vrai

Galician

Etymology 1

Back-formation from virar (“to turn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiɾa̝/

Noun

vira f (plural viras)

1. (shoemaking) welt
2. flounce; frill

   Synonym: fita

Related terms

• virar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vira

1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of ver

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vira

1. inflection of virar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “vira”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “vira”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “vira”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Guinea-Bissau Creole

Etymology

From Portuguese virar. Cognate with Kabuverdianu vira.

Verb

vira

1. to turn

Italian

Verb

vira

1. inflection of virare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Anagrams

• riva, vari

Kabuverdianu

Etymology

From Portuguese virar.

Verb

vira

1. to turn

Latin

Etymology 1

From vir (“man”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯i.ra/, [ˈu̯ɪrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ra/, [ˈviːrä]

Noun

vira f (genitive virae); first declension (hapax, Old Latin)

1. a woman
   • c. 600 CE – 625 CE, Isidorus Hispalensis, Etymologiae 11.2.33:

     Quae vērō nunc fēmina, antīquitus vira vocābātur; sīcut ā servō serva, sīcut ā famulō famula, ita ā virō vira.

     What is now called fēmina was called vira in the olden days; as serva from servus, as famula from famulus, so vira from vir.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vira	virae
genitive	virae	virārum
dative	virae	virīs
accusative	viram	virās
ablative	virā	virīs
vocative	vira	virae

Synonyms

• (woman, female): mulier, fēmina
• (wife): uxor

References

• “vira”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vira in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Etymology 2

From translingual Vira.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.ra/, [ˈu̯iːrä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ra/, [ˈviːrä]

Noun

vīra (New Latin)

1. nominative plural of vīrus

References

• William T. Stearn: Botanical Latin. History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology and Vocabulary. David & Charles, third edition, 1983. Quote: "Virus: virus (s.n. II), gen. sing. viri, nom. pl. vira, gen. pl. vīrorum (to be distinguished from virorum, of men)."

Further reading

• Plural form of words ending in -us on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ɾɐ/

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ɾɐ/
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ɾa/

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ɾɐ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ɾɐ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈbi.ɾɐ/

Etymology 1

From virar (“to turn”).

Noun

vira m (plural viras)

1. a traditional music and dance genre of northern Portugal

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vira

1. inflection of virar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vira

1. first/third-person singular pluperfect indicative of ver

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French virer.

Verb

a vira (third-person singular present virează, past participle virat) 1st conj.

1. (intransitive) to bear, veer (change direction slightly)

Conjugation

    conjugation of vira (first conjugation, -ez- infix)

infinitive			a vira
gerund			virând
past participle			virat
number		singular			plural
person		1st person	2nd person	3rd person	1st person	2nd person	3rd person
indicative		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	virez	virezi	virează	virăm	virați	virează
	imperfect	viram	virai	vira	viram	virați	virau
	simple perfect	virai	virași	viră	virarăm	virarăți	virară
	pluperfect	virasem	viraseși	virase	viraserăm	viraserăți	viraseră
subjunctive		eu	tu	el/ea	noi	voi	ei/ele
	present	să virez	să virezi	să vireze	să virăm	să virați	să vireze
imperative		—	tu	—	—	voi	—
	affirmative		virează			virați
	negative		nu vira			nu virați

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• vȅra (Ekavian)
• vjȅra (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *věra, from Proto-Indo-European *weh₁ros.

Noun

vira f (Cyrillic spelling вира)

1. (Chakavian, Ikavian) belief, faith; religion
   • 1501, Marko Marulić, Judita:

     Juditi Bog pomog kada napade na nj.
     Da joj ni trud zamanj, da stvari viru da,
     prikla ga, steć uza nj i odni glavu t(j)a.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1559, Marin Držić, Hekuba:

     Da vira pogine, kojom je človik lip,
     od svete istine svijet bi ostao slip.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1563, Dinko Ranjina, Pjesni razlike, section 288:

     Tim pravo ni, toga da ne zri tva vira,
     za tobom ki cvili, uzdiše i umira.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1584, Brne Karnarutić, Vazetje Sigeta grada:

     Za viru karstjansku protivit do smarti
     Tu silu pogansku ka nas grede tarti.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1622, Ivan Gundulić, Suze sina razmetnoga:

     Ljepos, razum, ljubav, vira
     Sve je pričica i besjeda:
     Kakav si, ona ne razbira,
     Koliko imaš samo gleda;

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1762, Matija Antun Relković, Satir iliti divji čovik:

     a ovamo ne znaš očenaša
     niti pravo što je vira naša.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Noun

vira (Cyrillic spelling вира)

1. genitive singular of vir

Shona

Etymology

From Proto-Bantu *-bɪ̀da.

Verb

-vira (infinitive kuvira)

1. (intransitive) to boil

Derived terms

• -vidza

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbiɾa/ [ˈbi.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -iɾa
• Syllabification: vi‧ra

Etymology 1

Probably from Old French vire (“dart, welt”), from Vulgar Latin *veria (“javelin, dart”), from Latin verua.

Noun

vira f (plural viras)

1. welt (of a hoe)
2. dart

Etymology 2

Verb

vira

1. inflection of virar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Further reading

• “vira”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

Swedish

Etymology 1

Possibly from Middle Low German wīre, Middle Low German wīren, cognate to English wire.

Verb

vira (present virar, preterite virade, supine virat, imperative vira)

1. to wind (yarn on a roll), to roll
2. (electronics) to wire-wrap

Conjugation

Conjugation of vira (weak)

	Active		Passive
Infinitive	vira		viras
Supine	virat		virats
Imperative	vira		—
Imper. plural1	viren		—
	Present	Past	Present	Past
Indicative	virar	virade	viras	virades
Ind. plural1	vira	virade	viras	virades
Subjunctive2	vire	virade	vires	virades
	Participles
Present participle	virande
Past participle	virad
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Etymology 2

Likely named after Vira bruk.

Noun

vira c (uncountable)

1. Vira (a card game)

Declension

Declension of vira

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	vira	viras
	definite	viran	virans
plural	indefinite	—	—
	definite	—	—

Further reading

• vira in Svenska Akademiens ordböcker
• vira in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

Anagrams

• Ivar, riva, vari