Where does “pan-Covid” come from?
pan-Covid (English) comes from English covid, from English COVID-19, from Translingual COVID-19, from Translingual COVID, from English disease, from Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, from Old French desaise — not, un-.
pan-Covid (English): Covering all strains of the COVID-19 virus
Definitions
- Covering all strains of the COVID-19 virus
Ancestry of “pan-Covid”, step by step
pan-Covid traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.
via English covid
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | covid | A cubit |
| 2 | English | COVID-19 | COVID-19 disease |
| 3 | Translingual | COVID-19 | A disease caused by a coronavirus discovered in 2019, in a zoonotic pandemic starting in Wuhan, Hubei, China |
| 4 | Translingual | COVID | A coronavirus disease |
| 5 | English | disease | An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant... |
| 6 | Middle English | disese | — |
| 7 | Anglo-Norman | desese | — |
| 8 | Old French | desaise | disease; deformity; melancholy |
| 9 | Old French | eise | ease |
| 10 | Latin | adiacēns | adjacent, adjoining, neighbouring |
| 11 | Latin | adiaceo | I lie beside, at, near or next to; am adjacent... |
| 12 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 13 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | n̥- | not, un- |
via English PAN
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | PAN | Acronym of primary account number; Acronym of... |
| 2 | English | pantograph | A mechanical linkage based on parallelograms... |
| 3 | French | pantographe | pantograph |
| 4 | French | -graphe | -graph; -grapher |
| 5 | Latin | -graphus | graph |
| 6 | Ancient Greek | -γράφος | writer, painter |
| 7 | Ancient Greek | γράφω | to scratch, cut into; to draw, sketch, paint; to... |
| 8 | Proto-Hellenic | grəpʰō | to scratch, cut or carve into |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | gerbʰ- | to carve |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | ger- | to turn, bend, twist, wind; to tie, bind... |