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.
Proper noun
COVID-19
- (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: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: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: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.
- (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: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, 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.
- 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.
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)
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