Where does “COVID-19” come from?
COVID-19 (English) comes from Translingual COVID-19, from Translingual COVID, from English disease, from Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, from Old French desaise, from Old French eise, from Latin adiacēns — in.
COVID-19 (English): COVID-19 disease
Definitions
- COVID-19 disease
Ancestry of “COVID-19”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Translingual | COVID-19 | A disease caused by a coronavirus discovered in 2019, in a zoonotic pandemic starting in Wuhan, Hubei, China |
| 2 | Translingual | COVID | A coronavirus disease |
| 3 | English | disease | An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant... |
| 4 | Middle English | disese | — |
| 5 | Anglo-Norman | desese | — |
| 6 | Old French | desaise | disease; deformity; melancholy |
| 7 | Old French | eise | ease |
| 8 | Latin | adiacēns | adjacent, adjoining, neighbouring |
| 9 | Latin | adiaceo | I lie beside, at, near or next to; am adjacent... |
| 10 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 11 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 12 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 13 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 14 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 15 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |