COVID

See also: Covid and covid

Translingual

Alternative forms

• Covid, covid

Etymology

Blend of Coronavirus +‎ disease. From "Co" of Latin corona, "Vi" of Virus, "D" of English disease. Coined by the UN WHO in February 2020.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈkəʊvɪd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊvɪd/
• Rhymes: -əʊvɪd
• Hyphenation: CO‧VID

Noun

COVID

1. (pathology) A coronavirus disease.
2. Abbreviation of COVID-19. (all senses)

Usage notes

• The term was created by the World Health Organization to standardize terminology for coronavirus outbreaks.

Coordinate terms

• CoV (Coronavirus)
• nCoV (novel coronavirus)
• SARS
• MERS

Derived terms

• COVID-19 (disease caused by SARS-CoV-2)

Descendants

• Vietnamese: Cô Vy

Translations

disease caused by a coronavirus discovered in 2019 — see also COVID-19

• Carpathian Rusyn: ко́від m (kóvid)
• Maori: Kowheori
• Polish: COVID (pl) m
• Russian: ковид (ru) (kovid)
• Vietnamese: Cô Vy (informal)

See also

• coronavirus disease on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• acute respiratory disease
• respiratory syndrome
• pneumonia
• flu (non-specific non-influenza)

English

Noun

COVID (uncountable)

1. Clipping of COVID-19.
   • 2020 January 28, [Pennsylvania] Department of Health, “COVID-19 in Pennsylvania”, in health.pa.gov‎^[1]:

     COVID is tough, but Pennsylvanians are tougher. Together we can make a difference, slow the spread of the virus, and save lives.

   • 2020 May 28, “COVID is no joke, it gets worse with smoke”, in Pan American Health Organization‎^[2]:

     Every year on 31 May we celebrate World No Tobacco Day to draw global attention to the tobacco epidemic and the preventable death and disease it causes. This year, the national theme is COVID is no joke, it gets worse with smoke.

   • 2021 January 13, Youyou Zhou, Gary Stix, “COVID Is on Track to Become the U.S.’s Leading Cause of Death—Yet Again”, in Scientific American‎^[3]:

     (see title)

Derived terms

• covidiocy
• covidiot
• Covidtide
• long COVID