Where does “COVID” come from?
COVID (Translingual) comes from English disease, from Middle English disese, from Anglo-Norman desese, from Old French desaise, from Old French eise, from Latin adiacēns, from Latin adiaceo, from Latin ad- — in.
COVID (Translingual): A coronavirus disease
Definitions
- A coronavirus disease
Ancestry of “COVID”, step by step
COVID traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English disease
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | disease | An abnormal condition of a human, animal or plant... |
| 2 | Middle English | disese | — |
| 3 | Anglo-Norman | desese | — |
| 4 | Old French | desaise | disease; deformity; melancholy |
| 5 | Old French | eise | ease |
| 6 | Latin | adiacēns | adjacent, adjoining, neighbouring |
| 7 | Latin | adiaceo | I lie beside, at, near or next to; am adjacent... |
| 8 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 9 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 10 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 11 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 12 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |
via Latin corōna
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | corōna | chaplet, laurel, or wreath; presented to athletes, the gods, or the dead |
| 2 | Spanish | -illa | Added to feminine nouns to denote a diminutive... |
| 3 | Old Spanish | -iella | A diminutive suffix |
| 4 | Latin | -ella | inflection of -ellus: ## nominative/vocative... |
| 5 | Latin | -ellus | Alternative form of -ulus; "forming masculine... |
| 6 | Latin | -ulus | Used to form a diminutive of a noun, indicating... |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | -olos | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | -elos | Forms desubstantival and deadjectival diminutive nouns |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | -e-lós | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -lós | Forms agent nouns from verbal roots |
via Translingual virus
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Translingual | virus | The taxonomic kingdom made up of the viruses, submicroscopic non-cellular structures consisting of a core of DNA or RNA surrounded by a protein coat, that require a living host cell to replicate, and often cause disease in the host |
| 2 | Latin | vīrus | — |
| 3 | Ancient Greek | -λογία | Base for nouns denoting the study of something,... |
| 4 | Ancient Greek | λόγος | That which is said: word, sentence, speech,... |
| 5 | Ancient Greek | λέγω | I put in order, arrange, gather; I choose, count,... |
| 6 | Proto-Indo-European | leǵ- | to gather, collect, with derivatives meaning to... |