Virus
German (Berlin)
/ˈviːʁʊs/
noun
Definitions
- virus
- (computing) computer virus
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vīrus (slime, poison, venom, poisonous liquid).
Origin
Latin
vīrus
Gloss
slime, poison, venom, poisonous liquid
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- virus English
- virulentus Latin
- vīrus Latin
- Grippe German
- Grippevirus German
- Last German
- Pocken German
- Pockenvirus German
- Viruslast German
- virus Dutch, Flemish
- ви́рус Russian
- вирусный Russian
- коронавирус Russian
- λευκός Ancient Greek
- ウイルス Japanese
- wirus Polish
- víreas Irish
- վիրուս Armenian
- -virus Translingual
- вирус Bulgarian
- коронавирус Bulgarian
- ретровирус Bulgarian
- вирус Kazakh
- viirus Estonian
- *weisos Proto-Italic
- вирус Mongolian