virus

(Angielski)

Częstotliwość

B2
Wymawiane jako (IPA)
/ˈvaɪɹəs/
Etymologia (Angielski)

In summary

From Middle English virus, from Latin vīrus (“poison, slime, venom”), via rhotacism from Proto-Italic *weizos, from Proto-Indo-European *wisós (“fluidity, slime, poison”). First use in the computer context by David Gerrold in his 1972 book When HARLIE Was One.

Related words

wirus

wirus komputerowy

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