[Ads-l] origin of the term "coronavirus"

[Margaret Winters]

I'm with you - and so is Lewis and Short which cites it as 'virus i n'.  I am assuming it is not linked to vir 😏.

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MARGARET E WINTERS
Former Provost
Professor Emerita - French and Linguistics
Wayne State University
Detroit, MI  48202

mewinters at wayne.edu


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JL:  << "Quid, me anxius sum?"  - Alfr. E. Neumannus >>
WB: Căvē vīrus Vǔhànense!  Mĕtŭēte, maxŭmē mĕtŭēte!  (Ait nēmō numquam.)
Wǔhàn 武漢/武汉: wǔ 'warlike, martial' + hàn 'Chinese'
Quite possibly, Victor Davis Hanson & I are alone in thinking that the (nom
/acc) plural of <vīrus> is <vīra>.

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