Word Origin Summary

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

Ancestry Chain

1. *(s)ker-Proto-Indo-Europeanderived from
2. corōnaLatinderived from
3. κορώνηAncient Greekderived from

Descendants and Related Terms

• coronavirus

  Romanian · borrowed from

• coronavirus

  Spanish · borrowed from

• coronavírus

  Portuguese · borrowed from

• 코로나바이러스

  Korean · borrowed from

• コロナウイルス

  Japanese · borrowed from

• coronavirus

  Vietnamese · borrowed from

• коронавирус

  Yakut · derived from

• coróinvíreas

  Irish · borrowed from

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• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root