Where does “pre-COVID” come from?
pre-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-.
pre-COVID (English): Before the COVID-19 pandemic
Definitions
- Before the COVID-19 pandemic
Ancestry of “pre-COVID”, step by step
| 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- |