Word Origin Summary

Coronavirus is attested in Translingual. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Ancestry Chain

1. coronaLatinderived from
2. *(s)ker-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from
3. κορώνηAncient Greekborrowed from

Descendants and Related Terms

• virus corona

  Vietnamese · derived from

• coronavirus

  Vietnamese · derived from

• coronavirus

  Dutch · borrowed from

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