COVID-19

Translingual

Alternative forms

• Covid-19

Etymology

From 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.

Proper noun

COVID-19

1. (pathology) A disease caused by a coronavirus discovered in 2019, in a zoonotic pandemic starting in Wuhan, Hubei, China.
2. (virology, metonymically) Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2; the virus which causes the disease.

Synonyms

• (virus): SARS-CoV-2
• (virus): 2019-nCoV

Coordinate terms

(disease):

• MERS
• SARS

(virus):

• MERS-CoV
• SARS-CoV

Descendants

• → Lao: ໂຄວິດ-19 (khō wit-19)
• → Samoan: KOVITI-19
• → Thai: โควิด-19

See also

• ACE2
• TMPRSS2

References

• COVID-19 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Category:COVID-19 on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

English

Wikinews ^en

Alternative forms

• Covid-19

Etymology

Abbreviation of coronavirus 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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊ.vɪd naɪnˈtin/, /ˈkʌ.vɪd naɪnˈtin/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊ.vɪd naɪnˈtiːn/, /ˈkɒ.vɪd naɪnˈtiːn/

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Proper noun

COVID-19

1. (pathology) COVID-19 (disease)

   diagnosed with COVID-19

   Synonyms: coronavirus disease 2019, 2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease, Wuhan pneumonia, Wuhan flu

   Hypernym: COVID

   Coordinate terms: pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome, Middle East respiratory syndrome

   • 2020 January 11, “Coronavirus”, in World Health Organization‎^[1]:

     Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus.

   • 2021 February 12, “Coronavirus (COVID-19) update”, in U.S. Food & Drug Administration‎^[2]:

     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

   • 2021 July 23, “COVID-positive man boards Indonesia flight disguised as wife”, in Aljazeera‎^[3]:

     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.

2. (virology, metonymically) SARS-CoV-2 (virus that causes the COVID-19 disease)

   Synonyms: China virus, Chinese virus, Wuhan coronavirus, Wuhan flu, Wuhan virus (all colloquial and sometimes offensive), kung flu (offensive)

   Hypernyms: virus, coronavirus

   Coordinate terms: influenza, MERS-related coronavirus, SARS-related coronavirus

   • 2020 January 11, “Coronavirus”, in World Health Organization‎^[4]:

     Most people infected with the COVID-19 virus will experience mild to moderate respiratory illness and recover without requiring special treatment.

   • 2021 February 5, “Redoubling public health measures needed due to COVID-19 virus variants”, in World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe‎^[5], archived from the original on 15 February 2021:

     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.

3. The COVID-19 pandemic which began in early 2020.

   Many diabetics have been dying, especially during COVID-19.

   • 2022, Paul Martin, Stevienna de Saille, Kirsty Liddiard, Warren Pearce, “Conclusion:Thinking about 'the Human' during COVID-19 Times”, in Stevienna de Saille, Paul Martin, editors, Being Human During COVID-19:

     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.

   • 2022, 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”, in Journal of Clinical Rheumatology, volume 28, number 5, →DOI:

     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

• COVID toes

Related terms

• the rona, Miss Rona

Translations

disease

• Apache:

  Western Apache: Cowid ńgóstʼáítsʼádah, cowid ńgóstʼáítsʼádah, nantʼaʼ chʼah kah naghaa

• Arabic: كوفيد-19 (kōfid-19)، كوڤيد-19 (kōvid-19)، كوفيد-١٩ (kōfid-19)، كوڤيد-١٩ (kōvid-19)
• Aromanian: Cuvid m
• Burmese: ကိုဗစ်-၁၉ (kuibac-19)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 新冠肺炎 (zh) (xīnguān fèiyán); (literal) 2019冠狀病毒病 / 2019冠状病毒病 (zh) (2019 Guānzhuàng Bìngdú Bìng), 新型冠状病毒肺炎 (xīnxíng guānzhuàng bìngdú fèiyán)

• Dhivehi: ކޮވިޑް-19 (koviḍ-19)
• Dutch: Covid-19 m, corona (nl) m (informal)
• Esperanto: KOVIM-19
• Finnish: COVID-19 (fi)
• French: Covid-19 (fr) m or f, COVID-19 (fr) m or f
• Georgian: კოვიდ-19 (ḳovid-19), კორონავირუსი (ḳoronavirusi)
• German: COVID-19 (de)
• Hebrew: קובי"ד-19 (kovi"d-19)
• Hindi: कोविड-१९ m (koviḍ-19), कोविड-19 m (koviḍ-19)
• Japanese: 新型肺炎 (Shingata haien), 新型コロナウイルス感染症 (Shingata koronauirusu kansenshō), コロナウイルス感染症2019 (koronauirusu kansenshō nisenjūkyū), コロナ2019 (korona nisenjūkyū)
• Kannada: ಕೋವಿಡ್ ೧೯ (kōviḍ 19)
• Khmer: កូវីដ-១៩ (kouviit dɑp pram buən)
• Korean: 신종 코로나바이러스 감염증 (sinjong koronabaireoseu gamyeomjeung) (South Korea), 신형코로나비루스감염증 (sinhyeongkoronabiruseugamyeomjeung) (North Korea)
• Lao: ໂຄວິດ-19 (khō wit-19)
• Macedonian: Ко́вид-19 (Kóvid-19)
• Maori: KOWHEORI-19
• Navajo: Dikos Ntsaaígíí-19
• Northwestern Ojibwa: biiwaabik-wiiwakwaan aakoziwin
• Pohnpeian: Kohpid, Koronapairus, Korona
• Polish: COVID-19 (pl) m
• Portuguese: Covid-19 f, corona (pt) m (informal)
• Russian: Ковид-19 (Kovid-19)
• Samoan: KOVITI-19
• Serbo-Croatian: Ковид-19 (Kovid-19)
• Spanish: covid-19 m or f
• Swahili: Covid-19, UVIKO-19
• Thai: โควิด-19 (th) (koo-wìt-sìp-gâao)
• Tibetan: ཏོག་དབྱིབས་ན་ཚ (tog dbyibs na tsha), ཏོག་དབྱིབས་རིམས་ནད (tog dbyibs rims nad), ཏོག་དབྱིབས་གཉན་རིམས་ ༡༩ (tog dbyibs gnyan rims 19) (colloquial) (lit. “pointy-top-shaped disease”, in reference to outer spike proteins of virus), ཀོ་ཝིད་ཊ་-༡༩ (ko wid ṭa -19), ཀོ་ལྦིད་ཊ་-༡༩ (ko lbid ṭa -19), ཏོག་དབྱིབས་ནད་དུག (tog dbyibs nad dug) (the virus itself)
• Ukrainian: Ковід-19 (Kovid-19)
• Vietnamese: COVID-19 (vi), Cô Vy (informal)
• Welsh: COVID-19 m, y Gofid Mawr m (informal)
• Yiddish: קאָװיד־19 (kovid-19)

French

Proper noun

COVID-19 m or f

1. Alternative letter-case form of Covid-19
   • 2020, M. Underner, J. Perriot, G. Peiffer, N. Jaafari, “COVID-19 et modifications du comportement tabagique [COVID-19 and changes in smoking]”, in Revue des Maladies Respiratoires, →DOI:

     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.

   • 2021 February 15, “Données sur la COVID-19 au Québec [Data on COVID-19 in Quebec]”, in Québec‎^[6]:

     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.

Italian

Proper noun

COVID-19 f

1. Alternative letter-case form of Covid-19

Portuguese

Proper noun

COVID-19 m or f

1. Alternative letter-case form of Covid-19

Tagalog

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English COVID-19.

Pronunciation

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˌkovid najnˈtin/ [ˌkoː.vɪd̪ n̪aɪ̯n̪ˈt̪in̪]
  • IPA^(key): (more native-sounding) /ˌkobid najnˈtin/ [ˌkoː.bɪd̪ n̪aɪ̯n̪ˈt̪in̪]
• Rhymes: -in

Noun

COVID-19 (Baybayin spelling ᜃᜓᜊᜒᜇ᜔ ᜈᜌ᜔ᜈ᜔ᜆᜒᜈ᜔)

1. COVID-19

Further reading

• “COVID-19”, in KWF Diksiyonaryo ng Wikang Filipino, Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, 2024

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [ko˧˧ vit̚˧˦ mɨəj˨˩ t͡ɕin˧˦], [ko˧˧ vit̚˧˨ʔ mɨəj˨˩ t͡ɕin˧˦]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [kow˧˧ vit̚˦˧˥ mɨj˦˩ t͡ɕin˦˧˥], [kow˧˧ vit̚˨˩ʔ mɨj˦˩ t͡ɕin˦˧˥]
• (Saigon) IPA^(key): [kow˧˧ vɨt̚˦˥ mɨj˨˩ cɨn˦˥] ~ [kow˧˧ jɨt̚˦˥ mɨj˨˩ cɨn˦˥], [kow˧˧ vɨt̚˨˩˨ mɨj˨˩ cɨn˦˥] ~ [kow˧˧ jɨt̚˨˩˨ mɨj˨˩ cɨn˦˥]
• Phonetic spelling: cô vít mười chín, cô vịt mười chín

Proper noun

COVID-19

1. COVID-19

Synonyms

• (COVID-19): Cô Vy (colloquial)