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COVID-19 en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈkɒ.vɪd naɪnˈtiːn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈkoʊ.vɪd naɪnˈtin/ (General-American)
  • /ˈkəʊ.vɪd naɪnˈtiːn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • (US) audio
  • /ˈkʌ.vɪd naɪnˈtin/ (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂-der. Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē)bor. Latin corōna Italian coronabor. English corona Proto-Indo-European *weys- Proto-Indo-European *wisós Proto-Italic *weizos Latin vīrusbor. Middle English virus English virus English coronavirusabbr. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁ ▲ Proto-Indo-European *trísinflu. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is- Proto-Italic *dis- Latin dis- Old French des- Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *(H)yeh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-kt Proto-Indo-European *(H)yéh₁kt ~ *(H)ih₁kéntder. Latin iaciō Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti Proto-Italic *-ējō Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ēō Latin -eō Latin iaceō Latin adiaceō Latin adiacēns? Old French eise Old French desaise Anglo-Norman desesebor. Middle English disese English diseaseabbr. Translingual 10 Translingual 9 Translingual 19abbr. Translingual COVID-19bor. English COVID-19 Borrowed from translingual COVID-19, an abbreviation of coronavirus disease + 19 from 2019, the year the virus was discovered. Coined by the World Health Organization on February 11, 2020. Intended to avoid stigma by not referring to a place, animal, career, or group of people.

Meanings

  1. COVID-19 (disease).
    • diagnosed with COVID-19
    • Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. 2020 January 11, “Coronavirus”, in World Health Organization:
    • Indonesia reported a record daily number of 1,566 COVID-19 deaths on Friday, taking total fatalities to 80,598, data from the country’s COVID-19 task force showed. 2021 July 23, “COVID-positive man boards Indonesia flight disguised as wife”, in Aljazeera:
    • This week, the FDA issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a a ^([sic]) monoclonal antibody combination for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 in adults and pediatric patients 2021 February 12, “Coronavirus (COVID-19) update”, in U.S. Food & Drug Administration:
  2. (metonymically) SARS-CoV-2 (virus that causes the COVID-19 disease).
    • As we enter the first months of 2021, increasing numbers of reports of variants of the COVID-19 virus mark a new development in the pandemic. 2021 February 5, “Redoubling public health measures needed due to COVID-19 virus variants”, in World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, archived from the original on 15 Feb 2021:
    • Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment. 2020 January 11, “Coronavirus”, in World Health Organization:
  3. The COVID-19 pandemic which began in early 2020, and ended sometime in the mid 2020s.
    • The pandemic has helped cement a view of the human as collective, prosocial, and sharing a common bond between all people. This shared experience of living (and dying) during COVID-19 has proved a unifying force. 2022, Paul Martin, Stevienna de Saille, Kirsty Liddiard, Warren Pearce, “Conclusion:Thinking about 'the Human' during COVID-19 Times”, in Stevienna de Saille, Paul Martin, editors, Being Human During COVID-19:
    • A second insight offered by our study is that several stresses apparent at the start of COVID-19, such as adapting to working from home, persisted during the pandemic, and new stresses emerged. 2022, Roland Duculan, Deanna Jannat-Khah, Xin A. Wang, Carol A. Mancuso, “Psychological Stress Reported at the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Subsequent Stress and Successful Coping in Patients With Rheumatic Diseases: A Longitudinal Analysis”, in Journal of Clinical Rheumatology, volume 28, number 5, →DOI:
    • Many diabetics have been dying, especially during COVID-19.

Forms

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Covid-19 alternative lexicographic

Coordinates

MERS-related coronavirus · SARS-related coronavirus · pneumonia · MERS-related coronavirus · Middle East respiratory syndrome · SARS-related coronavirus · severe acute respiratory syndrome · influenza · influenza

Deriveds

COVID toes

Holonyms

virus · coronavirus

Hypernyms

coronavirus · virus · COVID

Relateds

Miss Rona · the rona

Synonyms

coronavirus disease 2019 · Wuhan pneumonia · China virus · China virus · Wuhan flu · Wuhan pneumonia · Wuhan flu · Chinese virus · Wuhan coronavirus · Wuhan flu · Wuhan coronavirus · 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease · coronavirus disease 2019 · CCP virus · CCP virus · kung flu · rona · Wuhan virus · kung flu · 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease · Miss Rona · Chinese virus

Translations (65)

pon Korona (disease) · bo ཏོག་དབྱིབས་གཉན་རིམས་ ༡༩ (disease) · mi KOWHEORI-19 (disease) · sw Covid-19 (disease) · ja 新型肺炎 (disease) · es covid-19 (disease) · apw cowid ńgóstʼáítsʼádah (disease) · rup Cuvid (disease) · cmn 新冠肺炎 (disease) · mk Ко́вид-19 (disease) · nl Covid-19 (disease) · de COVID-19 (disease) · fr Covid-19 (disease) · pl COVID-19 (disease) · sw UVIKO-19 (disease) · uk Ковід-19 (disease) · yi קאָװיד־19 (disease) · ka კოვიდ-19 (disease) · apw Cowid ńgóstʼáítsʼádah (disease) · fr COVID-19 (disease) · lo ໂຄວິດ-19 (disease) · ka კორონავირუსი (disease) · bo ཀོ་ཝིད་ཊ་-༡༩ (disease) · ngh Karonesi (disease) · ko 코로나19 (disease) · dv ކޮވިޑް-19 (disease) · kn ಕೋವಿಡ್ ೧೯ (disease) · ja コロナ2019 (disease) · th โควิด-19 (disease) · bo ཏོག་དབྱིབས་ན་ཚ (disease) · bo ཏོག་དབྱིབས་ནད་དུག (disease) · pon Koronapairus (disease) · cmn 2019冠狀病毒病 /2019冠状病毒病 (disease) · ja コロナウイルス感染症2019 (disease) · ar كوفيد-١٩ (disease) · ar كوڤيد-١٩ (disease) · vi COVID-19 (disease) · pt corona (disease) · bo ཏོག་དབྱིབས་རིམས་ནད (disease) · eo KOVIM-19 (disease) · cy y Gofid Mawr (disease) · cmn 新型冠状病毒肺炎 (disease) · hi कोविड-19 (disease) · km កូវីដ-១៩ (disease) · nv Dikos Ntsaaígíí-19 (disease) · fi COVID-19 (disease) · chr ᎪᏈᏗ-19 (disease) · ko 신형코로나비루스감염증 (disease) · ja 新型コロナウイルス感染症 (disease) · sh Ковид-19 (disease) · hi कोविड-१९ (disease) · ko 신종 코로나바이러스 감염증 (disease) · ar كوفيد-19 (disease) · pt Covid-19 (disease) · ar كوڤيد-19 (disease) · ru Ковид-19 (disease) · my ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ (disease) · nl corona (disease) · cy COVID-19 (disease) · he קובי״ד־19 (disease) · pon Kohpid (disease) · vi Cô Vy (disease) · sm KOVITI-19 (disease) · bo ཀོ་ལྦིད་ཊ་-༡༩ (disease) · apw nantʼaʼ chʼah kah naghaa (disease)