virus

Senso (Inglese)

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)

Concetti

veleno

virus

limo

sinonimi

toxicum

venenum

virus venenum

mucus

Traduzioni

poison

veneno

virus

vírus

mucus

veneno

poison

phlegm

Virus

slime

Gift

ιός

βιτούμιο

δηλητήριο

virus

Pronunciato come (IPA)

[ˈwiː.rʊs]

Etimologia (Inglese)

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.