Re: Mesozoic illnesses

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

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From: "Andreas Johansson" <andreasj@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2007 8:04 PM

> In Latin, _virus_ is a neuter, so the plural would be _vira_

For that it would have to be _virum_, which it isn't. _Virus_ is an 
exception among the _o_-stems in -_us_ and declined like all others. Gender 
has no impact on declension, it's the other way around (which in turn has 
exceptions like _virus_).

> (Nouns in -ium are normally also neuters,

Always, even.

> with plurals in -ia.)

Which, confusingly enough, also holds for nouns and adjectives in -e, such 
as _gastrale_.