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Covid-19
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COVID-19 covid-19
Translingual
Proper noun
mul proper noun
mul COVID-19
English
Proper noun
en COVID-19.
en Lilit Marcus More than 1.4 billion people traveled internationally in 2024 as tourism returns to pre-pandemic highs w:CNN 2025-01-22 https://www.cnn.com/travel/united-nations-tourism-data-2024-intl-hnk/index.html About 1.4 billion people traveled internationally last year, which is 99% of the number who did the same in 2019, the last full year before Covid-19 hit the world. https://web.archive.org/web/20250805162721/https://www.cnn.com/travel/united-nations-tourism-data-2024-intl-hnk/index.html 5 August 2025
French
Alternative forms
fr COVID-19
Pronunciation
covide dize-neuf
fr LL-Q150 (fra)-DSwissK-Covid-19.wav <<Switzerland>> (<<Valais>>)
Proper noun
mf
fr pathology mul COVID-19 disease
fr January 28, 2020 Comprendre la Covid-19 Gouvernement https://www.gouvernement.fr/info-coronavirus/comprendre-la-covid-19 Les crises d’asthme sont le plus souvent de courte durée, variables et réversibles, contrairement à l’insuffisance respiratoire liée à la Covid-19 qui est de plus longue durée. Understanding COVID-19 Asthma attacks are most often of short duration, variable and reversible, unlike respiratory failure linked to COVID-19, which is of longer duration. https://web.archive.org/web/20230606194211/https://www.gouvernement.fr/info-coronavirus/comprendre-la-covid-19 6 June 2023
fr February 11, 2021 Le point sur l’épidémie de Covid-19 en France: le variant britannique représente un quart des infections Le Monde https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2021/02/11/le-variant-britannique-du-sars-cov-2-represente-un-quart-des-infections-en-france_6069646_3244.html Ces deux variants sont particulièrement surveillés car, outre qu’ils semblent être plus contagieux, comme celui qui a émergé au Royaume-Uni, ils pourraient également être « moins sensibles à certains vaccins disponibles » et « échapper aux anticorps fabriqués » par les personnes guéries du Covid-19, a souligné Olivier Véran. Update on the COVID-19 epidemic in France: British variant represents a quarter of infections These two variants bear special surveillance because, in addition to appearing to be more contagious, like the one that has emerged in the UK, they may also be "less sensitive to available vaccines" and to "slip past existing antibodies" of those who have recovered from COVID-19, according to Olivier Véran. https://web.archive.org/web/20240911050511/https://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2021/02/11/le-variant-britannique-du-sars-cov-2-represente-un-quart-des-infections-en-france_6069646_3244.html 11 September 2024
fr virology metonymy mul COVID-19 virus
fr December 19, 2019 Nouveau Coronavirus (Maladie: COVID-19, Virus: SARS-CoV-2) sciensano https://covid-19.sciensano.be/fr/node/1 Coronavirus Covid-19 COVID-19 coronavirus https://web.archive.org/web/20260905031319/https://covid-19.sciensano.be/fr/node/1 5 September 2026
fr February 5, 2021 Mise en place d'un suivis des populations particulières Covireivac https://www.covireivac.fr/actualites/decryptage-autour-des-vaccins/le-vaccin-contre-la-covid-19-et-les-populations-particulieres/ Les données concernant l’utilisation des vaccins contre la Covid-19 en population particulière sont très peu nombreuses. There is little current data on the use of vaccines against COVID-19 within specific populations. https://web.archive.org/web/20210227213529/https://www.covireivac.fr/actualites/decryptage-autour-des-vaccins/le-vaccin-contre-la-covid-19-et-les-populations-particulieres/ 27 February 2021
Usage notes
In Canadian French, fr Covid-19 f is feminine, by analogy with fr maladie f.
In Maghreb French, fr Covid-19 m is masculine.
In European French, fr Covid-19 mf appears in usage as masculine and feminine.
According to the en Académie Française, en Office québécois de la langue française, and the en World Health Organization, this term is feminine, because the term derives from the English word en disease, which is feminine in its French form, fr maladie f.
fr Viral diseases
Indonesian
Etymology
From id en COVID-19.
Pronunciation
id /ko.fit səm.bi.lan bə.las/
Proper noun
id pathology mul COVID-19 disease
Alternative forms
id Kopet-19 humorous
id Kopet humorous
id Viral diseases
Italian
Proper noun
f
mul COVID-19
Portuguese
Alternative forms
pt COVID-19
pt corona informal
Etymology
pt :ubor en:COVID-19 + 1
Proper noun
mf
pt pathology mul COVID-19 disease
pt virology metonymy mul COVID-19 virus
pt April 7, 2021 Duas enfermeiras vacinadas no Japão testam positivo para Covid-19 Portal Mie https://www.portalmie.com/atualidade/noticias-do-japao/sociedade-2/2021/04/duas-enfermeiras-vacinadas-no-japao-testam-positivo-para-covid-19/ Duas enfermeiras na cidade de Atsugi (Kanagawa) que foram vacinadas contra Covid-19, desde então, testaram positivo para o vírus, anunciou o governo provincial na terça-feira (6). Two nurses in the city of Atsugi (Kanagawa) who had been vaccinated against COVID-19 earlier, tested positive for the virus, the prefectural government announced Tuesday (April 6). Two vaccinated nurses in Japan test positive for COVID-19 https://web.archive.org/web/20251003002653/https://portalmie.com/atualidade/noticias-do-japao/sociedade-2/2021/04/duas-enfermeiras-vacinadas-no-japao-testam-positivo-para-covid-19/ 3 October 2025