From Dutch voor (“for; before”) or rather the dialectal variant veur (compare deur with Dutch door). The Afrikaans distinction between vir (“for”) and voor (“before”) may have been influenced by corresponding German für and vor.
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Borrowed from modern European languages, English virus, French virus, German Virus, which are all from Latin virus.
vir m inan
From Old Galician-Portuguese vĩir, from Latin venīre, present active infinitive of veniō.
vir (first-person singular present veño, first-person singular preterite vin, past participle vindo)
vir (first-person singular present venho, first-person singular preterite vim, past participle vindo, reintegrationist norm)
Singular | Plural | |||||
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First-person (eu) |
Second-person (ti) |
Third-person (el / ela / Vde.) |
First-person (nós) |
Second-person (vós) |
Third-person (eles / elas / Vdes.) | |
Infinitive | ||||||
Impersonal | vir | |||||
Personal | vir | vires | vir | virmos | virdes | viren |
Gerund | ||||||
vindo | ||||||
Past participle | ||||||
Masculine | vindo | vindos | ||||
Feminine | vinda | vindas | ||||
Indicative | ||||||
Present | veño | vés | vén | vimos | vindes, vides | veñen |
Imperfect | viña | viñas | viña | viñamos | viñades | viñan |
Preterite | vin | viñeches | veu | viñemos | viñestes | viñeron |
Pluperfect | viñera | viñeras | viñera | viñeramos | viñerades | viñeran |
Future | virei | virás | virá | viremos | viredes | virán |
Conditional | viría | virías | viría | viriamos | viriades | virían |
Subjunctive | ||||||
Present | veña | veñas | veña | veñamos | veñades | veñan |
Imperfect | viñese | viñeses | viñese | viñésemos | viñésedes | viñesen |
Future | viñer | viñeres | viñer | viñermos | viñerdes | viñeren |
Imperative | ||||||
Affirmative | ven | veña | veñamos | vinde, vide | veñan | |
Negative (non) | non veñas | non veña | non veñamos | non veñades | non veñan |
1Less recommended.
Inflected form of ver (“to see”).
vir
From Proto-Italic *wiros, from Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós. Cognates include Sanskrit वीर (vīrá), Old Prussian wijrs, Lithuanian vyras, Latvian vīrs, Old Irish fer, Old Norse verr, Ossetian ир (ir, “Ossetians”) and Old English wer (English were-).
vir m (genitive virī); second declension
Vir has the sense of adult male human being. In reference to age or maturity, it is used in opposition to puer (“boy”); in reference to gender or sex, it is used in opposition to or coordination with fēmina or mulier (“woman”). In the context of ancient Roman society, vir connoted a man of freeborn status rather than an enslaved man or freedman. "Man" in the sense of "human being" is rendered by Latin homō (e.g., as opposed to bēstia (“beast”) or deus (“god”)); in the sense of male, by Latin mās (as opposed to fēmina (“female”)).
Second-declension noun (nominative singular in -r).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vir | virī |
Genitive | virī | virōrum |
Dative | virō | virīs |
Accusative | virum | virōs |
Ablative | virō | virīs |
Vocative | vir | virī |
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vir
From Old East Norse *wīʀ, (compare Old West Norse vér), from Proto-Germanic *wīz.
vīr
first person | second person | reflexive | third person | |||
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masculine | feminine | neuter | ||||
singular | ||||||
nominative | iak, iæk | þū | — | han | hōn | þæt |
accusative | mik, mek | þik | sik | han | hana, hōna | þæt |
dative | mǣ(r), mik | þǣ(r), þik | sǣ(r), sik | hōnum, hānum | hænni | þȳ, þī |
genitive | mīn | þīn | sīn | hans | hænna(r) | þæs |
dual | ||||||
nominative | vit | it | — | — | — | — |
accusative | oker | *iker | sik | — | — | — |
dative | oker | *iker | sǣr, sik | — | — | — |
genitive | okar | *ikar | sīn | — | — | — |
plural | ||||||
nominative | vī(r) | ī(r) | — | þē(r) | þā(r) | þø̄n, þē(n) |
accusative | os, ōs | iþer | sik | þā | þā(r) | þø̄n, þē(n) |
dative | os, ōs | iþer | sǣr, sik | þēm, þø̄m, þom | þēm, þø̄m, þom | þēm, þø̄m, þom |
genitive | vār | iþar | sīn | þēra | þēra | þēra |
From Old French veoir, veir, from earlier vedeir, from Latin vidēre, present active infinitive of videō.
vir
vir m (plural vir)
From Old Galician-Portuguese viir, from earlier Old Galician-Portuguese vĩir, from Latin venīre, from Proto-Italic *gʷenjō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷm̥yéti, from zero-grade of *gʷem- + *-yéti.
Related to Spanish and French venir, Italian venire, Romanian veni.
vir (first-person singular present venho, first-person singular preterite vim, past participle vindo)
Singular | Plural | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
First-person (eu) |
Second-person (tu) |
Third-person (ele / ela / você) |
First-person (nós) |
Second-person (vós) |
Third-person (eles / elas / vocês) | |
Infinitive | ||||||
Impersonal | vir | |||||
Personal | vir | vires | vir | virmos | virdes | virem |
Gerund | ||||||
vindo | ||||||
Past participle | ||||||
Masculine | vindo | vindos | ||||
Feminine | vinda | vindas | ||||
Indicative | ||||||
Present | venho | vens | vem | vimos | vindes | vêm |
Imperfect | vinha | vinhas | vinha | vínhamos | vínheis | vinham |
Preterite | vim | vieste | veio | viemos | viestes | vieram |
Pluperfect | viera | vieras | viera | viéramos | viéreis | vieram |
Future | virei | virás | virá | viremos | vireis | virão |
Conditional | viria | virias | viria | viríamos | viríeis | viriam |
Subjunctive | ||||||
Present | venha | venhas | venha | venhamos | venhais | venham |
Imperfect | viesse | viesses | viesse | viéssemos | viésseis | viessem |
Future | vier | vieres | vier | viermos | vierdes | vierem |
Imperative | ||||||
Affirmative | vem | venha | venhamos | vinde | venham | |
Negative (não) | não venhas | não venha | não venhamos | não venhais | não venham |
For quotations using this term, see Citations:vir.
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
vir
For quotations using this term, see Citations:ver.
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *virъ.
vir m (Cyrillic spelling вир)
From Proto-Slavic *virъ.
vȋr m inan
Masculine inan., hard o-stem | |||
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nom. sing. | vír | ||
gen. sing. | víra | ||
singular | dual | plural | |
nominative (imenovȃlnik) |
vír | víra | víri |
genitive (rodȋlnik) |
víra | vírov | vírov |
dative (dajȃlnik) |
víru | víroma | vírom |
accusative (tožȋlnik) |
vír | víra | víre |
locative (mẹ̑stnik) |
víru | vírih | vírih |
instrumental (orọ̑dnik) |
vírom | víroma | víri |