rotavirus

rotavirus

See also: Rotavirus and rotavírus

English

Rotaviruses in the faeces of an infected child

Etymology

From Latin rota (“wheel”) + virus. The name was first proposed in July 1974 in an article in The Lancet.[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊtəˌvaɪɹəs/

Noun

rotavirus (plural rotaviruses)

1. Any of a group of wheel-shaped viruses, of the genus Rotavirus, that causes gastroenteritis and diarrhea in children and animals.
   • [1974 July 13, Flewett, T. H., Bryden, A. S., Davies, H., Woode, G. N., Bridger, J. C., Derrick, J. M., “Relation between viruses from acute gastroenteritis of children and newborn calves”, in The Lancet, volume 304, number 7872, DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(74)91631-6, page 63:

     We propose therefore that these reovirus-like or orbivirus-like enteritis viruses of calves and children are in a group separate from both orbiviruses and reoviruses, and we suggest that the term “rotavirus” (from the Latin rota, a wheel) should be used for them.]

Synonyms

• duovirus (dated)

Derived terms

• antirotavirus
• nonrotavirus
• rotaviral
• rotavirion
• rotavirologist
• rotavirology
• rotaviruslike

 

Translations

any of a group of wheel-shaped viruses

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 輪狀病毒／轮状病毒 (lúnzhuàng bìngdú) Dutch: rotavirus n Finnish: rotavirus (fi) French: rotavirus (fr) m German: Rotavirus m or n Hungarian: rotavírus Italian: please add this translation if you can Japanese: ロタウイルス (rota-uirusu) Korean: 로타바이러스 (rotabaireoseu) Maori: huaketo puku Polish: rotawirus (pl) Portuguese: rotavírus m Russian: ротави́рус (ru) m (rotavírus) Spanish: rotavirus m

References

1. Flewett, T. H., Bryden, A. S., Davies, H., Woode, G. N., Bridger, J. C., Derrick, J. M. (1974-07-13), “Relation between viruses from acute gastroenteritis of children and newborn calves”, in The Lancet, volume 304, issue 7872, DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(74)91631-6, page 63: “We propose therefore that these reovirus-like or orbivirus-like enteritis viruses of calves and children are in a group separate from both orbiviruses and reoviruses, and we suggest that the term “rotavirus” (from the Latin rota, a wheel) should be used for them.”

Further reading

• rotavirus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rotavirus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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Finnish

Etymology

Internationalism (see English rotavirus).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈrotɑʋirus/, [ˈro̞t̪ɑˌʋirus̠]
• Rhymes: -irus
• Syllabification^(key): ro‧ta‧vi‧rus

Noun

rotavirus

1. rotavirus

Declension

Inflection of rotavirus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		rotavirus	rotavirukset
genitive		rotaviruksen	rotavirusten rotaviruksien
partitive		rotavirusta	rotaviruksia
illative		rotavirukseen	rotaviruksiin
		singular	plural
nominative		rotavirus	rotavirukset
accusative	nom.	rotavirus	rotavirukset
	gen.	rotaviruksen
genitive		rotaviruksen	rotavirusten rotaviruksien
partitive		rotavirusta	rotaviruksia
inessive		rotaviruksessa	rotaviruksissa
elative		rotaviruksesta	rotaviruksista
illative		rotavirukseen	rotaviruksiin
adessive		rotaviruksella	rotaviruksilla
ablative		rotavirukselta	rotaviruksilta
allative		rotavirukselle	rotaviruksille
essive		rotaviruksena	rotaviruksina
translative		rotavirukseksi	rotaviruksiksi
instructive		—	rotaviruksin
abessive		rotaviruksetta	rotaviruksitta
comitative		—	rotaviruksineen

Possessive forms of rotavirus (type vastaus)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	rotavirukseni	rotaviruksemme
2nd person	rotaviruksesi	rotaviruksenne
3rd person	rotaviruksensa

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Spanish

Noun

rotavirus m (plural rotavirus)

1. (virology) rotavirus

Further reading

• “rotavirus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014