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The name "coronavirus" is derived from Latin corona, meaning "crown" or "wreath", itself a borrowing from Greek κορώνη korṓnē, "garland, wreath". [8] [9] The name was coined by June Almeida and David Tyrrell who first observed and studied human coronaviruses. [10]
Corona (from the Latin for 'crown') most commonly refers to: . Stellar corona, the outer atmosphere of the Sun or another star; Corona (beer), a Mexican beer Corona, informal term for the coronavirus or disease responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic:
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words.
Coronaviruses are known for their shape resembling a stellar corona, such as that of the Sun visible during a total solar eclipse; corona is derived from Latin corōna 'garland, wreath, crown'. [6]
corona 1. In flowering plants, a ring of structures that may be united in a tube, arising from the corolla or perianth of a flower and standing between the perianth lobes and the stamen s. The trumpet of a daffodil is a corona. 2. In grasses, a hardened ring of tissue surmounting the lemma in some species. cortex. pl. cortexes or cortices
Recourse to a dictionary produced the Latin equivalent, corona, and so the name coronavirus was born. [ 3 ] Proposal of the new name was submitted to and accepted by the International Committee for the Nomenclature of Viruses (ICNV, established in 1966). [ 2 ]
The corona of glans penis (or, directly from the Latin, the corona glandis penis [1]) or penis crown refers to the rounded projecting border or flare that forms at the base of the glans in human males. The corona overhangs a mucosal surface, known as the neck of the penis, which separates the shaft and the glans. [2]
The name "betacoronavirus" is derived from Ancient Greek βῆτα (bē̂ta, "the second letter of the Greek alphabet"), and κορώνη (korṓnē, “garland, wreath”), meaning crown, which describes the appearance of the surface projections seen under electron microscopy that resemble a solar corona.