The corpus record — Latin

uirus

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Where it lives

Apologia 2 · 0.93/10k
Divus Augustus 1 · 0.75/10k
Punica 4 · 0.52/10k
Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2 · 0.28/10k

In the wild

uirus Apuleius, Apologia 3
uirus Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 1.8.p2
uirus Apuleius, Apologia 67
uirus Silius Italicus, Punica 12.124
uirus Silius Italicus, Punica 11.557
uirus Bede, Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum 2.19.p7

6 of 9 attestations shown.

Where it came from

de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) Treated in de Vaan, Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Brill 2008) s.v. virus (scan pp. 696-697; entry #2002). Root candidates: *uiso-, *mros-.
Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine Treated in Ernout-Meillet, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue latine s.v. uirus (scan p. 764; entry #12747).
Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Walde-Hofmann, Lateinisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. virus (scan p. 1708; entry #3274).

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