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COVID-19
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Translingual
Alternative forms
mul Covid-19
Etymology
mul :abbr en:coronavirus en:disease mul:19 1
From mul COVID and the year 2019. The format was established by the World Health Organization (WHO) and is to be used for the names of future outbreaks. NBC News, "Coronavirus gets official name from WHO: COVID-19", Erika Edwards, 11 February 2020 BBC News, "Coronavirus officially named Covid-19, says WHO", 11 February 2020 Agence France Presse, "Novel coronavirus named 'Covid-19': UN health agency", AFP News Agency, 11 February 2020
Proper noun
mul proper noun
mul pathology A disease caused by a coronavirus discovered in 2019, in a zoonotic pandemic starting in Wuhan, Hubei, China.
mul virology metonym Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2 strain; the virus which causes the disease.
Synonyms
virus mul SARS-CoV-2
virus mul 2019-nCoV
Coordinate terms
disease
mul MERS SARS
virus
mul MERS-CoV SARS-CoV
Descendants
lo ໂຄວິດ-19 1
sm KOVITI-19 1
th โควิด-19 1
See also
ACE2
TMPRSS2
References
mul COVID-19 Viral diseases
English
en Category:COVID-19
Alternative forms
en Covid-19
Etymology
en :bor mul:COVID-19 1
en mul COVID-19, an abbreviation of en coronavirus en disease + 19 from 2019, the year the virus was discovered. Coined by the World Health Organization on February 11, 2020. Intended to avoid stigma by not referring to a place, animal, career, or group of people.
Pronunciation
en /ˈkoʊ.vɪd naɪnˈtin/ /ˈkʌ.vɪd naɪnˈtin/ GA
en /ˈkəʊ.vɪd naɪnˈtiːn/ /ˈkɒ.vɪd naɪnˈtiːn/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-COVID-19.wav Southern England
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-COVID-19.wav US
Proper noun
en disease mul COVID-19 disease.
en coronavirus disease 2019 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease Wuhan pneumonia Wuhan flu
en Thesaurus:COVID-19
en COVID
en pneumonia severe acute respiratory syndrome Middle East respiratory syndrome
en diagnosed with COVID-19
en January 11, 2020 Coronavirus World Health Organization https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. https://web.archive.org/web/20261011042154/https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus 11 October 2026
en February 12, 2021 Coronavirus (COVID-19) update U.S. Food & Drug Administration https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-february-12-2021 This week, the FDA issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a a monoclonal antibody combination for the treatment of mild to moderate COVID-19 in adults and pediatric patients https://web.archive.org/web/20260614203825/https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/coronavirus-covid-19-update-february-12-2021 14 June 2026
en 23 Jul 2021 Aljazeera COVID-positive man boards Indonesia flight disguised as wife https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/23/covid-positive-indonesian-man-poses-as-wife-to-board-flight Indonesia reported a record daily number of 1,566 COVID-19 deaths on Friday, taking total fatalities to 80,598, data from the country’s COVID-19 task force showed. https://web.archive.org/web/20260315231312/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/23/covid-positive-indonesian-man-poses-as-wife-to-board-flight 15 March 2026
en virology metonymy mul SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes the COVID-19 disease.
en China virus Chinese virus CCP virus Wuhan coronavirus Wuhan flu Wuhan virus<qq:all colloquial and sometimes offensive> kung flu<qq:offensive>
en Thesaurus:COVID-19
en virus coronavirus
en influenza Middle East respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus MERS-related coronavirus SARS-related coronavirus
en January 11, 2020 Coronavirus World Health Organization https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment. https://web.archive.org/web/20261011042154/https://www.who.int/health-topics/coronavirus 11 October 2026
en February 5, 2021 Redoubling public health measures needed due to COVID-19 virus variants World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-emergencies/coronavirus-covid-19/news/news/2021/2/redoubling-public-health-measures-needed-due-to-covid-19-virus-variants As we enter the first months of 2021, increasing numbers of reports of variants of the COVID-19 virus mark a new development in the pandemic. 17 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210215120808/https://www.euro.who.int/en/health-topics/health-emergencies/coronavirus-covid-19/news/news/2021/2/redoubling-public-health-measures-needed-due-to-covid-19-virus-variants 15 February 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic which began in early 2020, and ended sometime in the mid 2020s.
en Many diabetics have been dying, especially during COVID-19.
en 2022 Stevienna de Saille; Paul Martin Being Human During COVID-19 Conclusion:Thinking about 'the Human' during COVID-19 Times Paul Martin; Stevienna de Saille; Kirsty Liddiard; Warren Pearce The pandemic has helped cement a view of the human as collective, prosocial, and sharing a common bond between all people. This shared experience of living (and dying) during COVID-19 has proved a unifying force.
en 2022 Journal of Clinical Rheumatology 28 5 10.1097/RHU.0000000000001846 Roland Duculan; Deanna Jannat-Khah; Xin A. Wang; Carol A. Mancuso Psychological Stress Reported at the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Subsequent Stress and Successful Coping in Patients With Rheumatic Diseases: A Longitudinal Analysis A second insight offered by our study is that several stresses apparent at the start of COVID-19, such as adapting to working from home, persisted during the pandemic, and new stresses emerged.
Derived terms
en COVID toes
Related terms
the en rona, en Miss Rona
Translations
disease
Apache:
Western Apache: apw Cowid ńgóstʼáítsʼádah, apw cowid ńgóstʼáítsʼádah, apw nantʼaʼ chʼah kah naghaa
Arabic: ar كوفيد-19 kōfid-19، ar كوڤيد-19 kōvid-19، ar كوفيد-١٩ kōfid-19، ar كوڤيد-١٩ kōvid-19
Aromanian: rup Cuvid m
Burmese: my ကိုဗစ်-၁၉
Cherokee: chr ᎪᏈᏗ-19
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 新冠肺炎 xīnguān fèiyán; literal cmn 2019冠狀病毒病 2019 Guānzhuàng Bìngdú Bìng, cmn 新型冠状病毒肺炎 xīnxíng guānzhuàng bìngdú fèiyán
Dhivehi: dv ކޮވިޑް-19
Dutch: nl Covid-19 m, nl corona m informal
Esperanto: eo KOVIM-19
Finnish: fi COVID-19
French: fr Covid-19 m f, fr COVID-19 m f
Georgian: ka კოვიდ-19, ka კორონავირუსი
German: de COVID-19
Hebrew: he קובי״ד־19 kovi"d-19 קובי"ד-19
Hindi: hi कोविड-१९ m, hi कोविड-19 m
Japanese: ja 新型肺炎 Shingata haien, ja 新型コロナウイルス感染症 Shingata koronauirusu kansenshō, ja コロナウイルス感染症2019 koronauirusu kansenshō nisenjūkyū, ja コロナ2019 korona nisenjūkyū
Kannada: kn ಕೋವಿಡ್ ೧೯
Khmer: km កូវីដ-១៩
Korean: ko 신종 코로나바이러스 감염증 South Korea, ko 신형코로나비루스감염증 North Korea, ko 코로나19 koronailgu, ko 신종 코로나바이러스 감염 China
Lao: lo ໂຄວິດ-19
Macedonian: mk Ко́вид-19
Māori: mi KOWHEORI-19
Navajo: nv Dikos Ntsaaígíí-19
Nǀuu: ngh Karonesi
Pohnpeian: pon Kohpid, pon Koronapairus, pon Korona
Polish: pl COVID-19 m-in
Portuguese: pt Covid-19 f, pt corona m informal
Russian: ru Ковид-19
Samoan: sm KOVITI-19
Serbo-Croatian: sh Ковид-19 Kovid-19
Spanish: es covid-19 m f
Swahili: sw Covid-19, sw UVIKO-19
Thai: th โควิด-19 koo-wìt-sìp-gâao
Tibetan: bo ཏོག་དབྱིབས་ན་ཚ, bo ཏོག་དབྱིབས་རིམས་ནད, bo ཏོག་དབྱིབས་གཉན་རིམས་ ༡༩ colloquial lit. “pointy-top-shaped disease”, in reference to outer spike proteins of virus, bo ཀོ་ཝིད་ཊ་-༡༩, bo ཀོ་ལྦིད་ཊ་-༡༩, bo ཏོག་དབྱིབས་ནད་དུག the virus itself
Ukrainian: uk Ковід-19
Vietnamese: vi COVID-19, vi Cô Vy informal
Welsh: cy COVID-19 m, cy y Gofid Mawr m informal
Yiddish: yi קאָװיד־19
Zhuang: za bwtbingh binghdoeg gvanhcang yienghmoq
en Types of coronaviruses Viruses COVID-19 Viral diseases
en neologisms
French
Proper noun
mf
fr Covid-19
fr 2020 M. Underner; J. Perriot; G. Peiffer; N. Jaafari COVID-19 et modifications du comportement tabagique Revue des Maladies Respiratoires La COVID-19, apparue en Chine en décembre 2019, est due à un nouveau coronavirus, le coronavirus 2019, à l’origine de la pandémie actuelle. COVID-19, which appeared in China in December 2019, is a novel coronavirus, the 2019 coronavirus, which is the origin of the current pandemic. COVID-19 and changes in smoking 10.1016/j.rmr.2020.08.004
fr February 15, 2021 Données sur la COVID-19 au Québec Québec https://www.quebec.ca/sante/problemes-de-sante/a-z/coronavirus-2019/situation-coronavirus-quebec/ Au Québec, pour le moment, la propagation du coronavirus (COVID‑19) est sous contrôle, mais les présentes semaines sont critiques. In Quebec, for the moment, the transmission of coronavirus (COVID‑19) is under control, but the next weeks are critical. Data on COVID-19 in Quebec
fr COVID-19 Viral diseases
Italian
Proper noun
f
it Covid-19
it COVID-19 Viral diseases
Portuguese
Proper noun
mf
pt Covid-19
Further reading
pt COVID-19 Viral diseases
Tagalog
Etymology
tl :ubor en:COVID-19 + 1
Pronunciation
kovid nayntín +
Noun
+
en COVID-19
Further reading
tl COVID-19 Viral diseases
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
cô vít mười chín cô vịt mười chín
Proper noun
en COVID-19
Synonyms
COVID-19 Cô Vy colloquial
vi COVID-19 Viral diseases