Where does “코로나” come from?
코로나 (Korean) comes from Korean 코로나바이러스, from English coronavirus, from English corona, from Italian corona, from Latin corōna, from Spanish -illa, from Old Spanish -iella, from Latin -ella — Forms agent nouns from verbal roots.
코로나 (Korean): A coronavirus, especially SARS-CoV-2
Definitions
- A coronavirus, especially SARS-CoV-2
Ancestry of “코로나”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Korean | 코로나바이러스 | coronavirus |
| 2 | English | coronavirus | A member of the family Coronaviridaews,... |
| 3 | English | corona | The luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun or... |
| 4 | Italian | corona | crown; coronet; wreath, chaplet |
| 5 | Latin | corōna | chaplet, laurel, or wreath; presented to athletes, the gods, or the dead |
| 6 | Spanish | -illa | Added to feminine nouns to denote a diminutive... |
| 7 | Old Spanish | -iella | A diminutive suffix |
| 8 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 9 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 10 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 11 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |