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