English Explanatory Dictionary

coronavirus

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of the family Coronaviridae, comprising viruses which infect animals and human beings, and the genome of which consists of a single strand of RNA.
  2. SARS-CoV-2, the specific coronavirus that causes the infectious disease COVID-19.
  3. An illness caused by a coronavirus.
  4. COVID-19, the disease caused by the specific coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
name
  1. Alternative letter-case form of coronavirus (“the virus SARS-CoV-2 or the disease COVID-19”).

Pronunciation

/kəˈɹəʊnəˌvaɪɹəs/ /kəˈɹoʊnəˌvaɪɹəs/ En-us-coronavirus.oga

Word forms

coronavirus coronaviruses corona virus corona-virus

Etymology

From corona (“crown-like circle of light appearing around the sun”) + virus. Corona is derived from Latin corōna (“garland, wreath; crown”), from Ancient Greek κορώνη (korṓnē, “something curved; curved stern of a ship; end, point, tip”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to bend, turn”). The name refers to the characteristic appearance of its virions by electron microscopy, which have a fringe of surface projections creating an image reminiscent of a solar corona. Compare the former genus name Coronavirus.

Synonyms

crown virus corona rona Wuhan virus Wuhan coronavirus China virus Chinese virus Wuhan flu kung flu

Derived words

alphacoronavirus anticoronavirus betacoronavirus bovine coronavirus corona corona belly corona blues coronacoaster coronahoax coronaphobia coronapocalypse Coronatide coronaviral coronavirion coronavirologist coronavirology coronavirosis coronavirus disease 2019 coronaviruslike coronavirus party coronial COVID-19 deltacoronavirus feline coronavirus gammacoronavirus murine coronavirus noncoronavirus pancoronavirus porcine respiratory coronavirus postcoronavirus precoronavirus rona Wuhan coronavirus

Translations

Albanian: koronavirus Amharic: ኮሮና ቫይረስ Amharic: ኮሮናቫይረስ Arabic: فِيرُوس كُورُونَا Arabic: ڤِيرُوس كُورُونَا Armenian: կորոնավիրուս Armenian: թագավարակ Azerbaijani: koronavirus Basque: koronabirus Belarusian: каранаві́рус Bengali: করোনাভাইরাস Breton: kurunviruz Bulgarian: коронави́рус Burmese: ကိုရိုနာဗိုင်းရပ်စ် Catalan: coronavirus Chinese Cantonese: 冠狀病毒 /冠状病毒 Chinese Mandarin: 冠狀病毒 /冠状病毒 Corsican: coronavirus Corsican: curonavirus Czech: koronavirus Danish: coronavirus Danish: corona Dutch: coronavirus Esperanto: koronaviruso Esperanto: kronviruso Estonian: koroonaviirus Finnish: koronavirus French: coronavirus West-Frisian: coronafirus West-Frisian: koroanafirus Galician: coronavirus Galician: escornavirus Georgian: კორონავირუსი German: Coronavirus Gilaki: تاجي ويرۊس Gilaki: کؤرؤنا ويرۊس Greek: κορωνοϊός Greek: κορονοϊός Greek: κορωναϊός Greek: κοροναϊός Haitian Creole: kowonaviris Hebrew: קוֹרוֹנָה Hebrew: נְגִיף קוֹרוֹנָה Hindi: कोरोना विषाणु Hindi: किरीट विषाणु Hindi: कोरोनावायरस Hungarian: koronavírus Icelandic: kórónaveira Indonesian: koronavirus Indonesian: virus korona Irish: coróinvíreas Irish: víreas corónach Italian: coronavirus Japanese: コロナウイルス Japanese: コロナ Kannada: ಕೊರೋನಾವೈರಸ್ Kazakh: қоронавирус Khmer: វីរុសកូរ៉ូណា
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