virus

Signification (Anglais)

1. (declension-2, indeclinable) venom (a poisonous substance secreted by animals or plants)
2. (declension-2, indeclinable) a plant- or animal-sourced substance with medicinal or magical properties
3. (declension-2, indeclinable) a liquid element that makes something taste or smell bitter or acrid
4. (declension-2, indeclinable) a liquid element that makes something taste or smell bitter or acrid
5. (New-Latin, declension-2, indeclinable) a virus (infectious organism)

Concepts

poison

limon

venin

virus

venim

Synonymes

toxicum

venenum

virus venenum

mucus

Traductions

poison

virus

veneno

veleno

mucus

veneno

vírus

Virus

phlegm

slime

Gift

ιός

βιτούμιο

δηλητήριο

virus

Prononcé comme (IPA)

[ˈwiː.rʊs]

Étymologie (Anglais)

Via rhotacism from Proto-Italic *weizos, from Proto-Indo-European *wisós (“fluidity, slime, poison”). Cognates include Sanskrit विष (viṣá), Ancient Greek ἰός (iós, “poison”), Tocharian B wase, and Middle Irish fí. The neuter gender, despite its nominative singular ending -us being typical of the masculine second-declension, is possibly a relic of this term's inheritance from a neuter s-stem.