SARS-CoV-2
Translingual
![](Images/wiktionary/SARS-CoV-2_without_background.png.webp)
Illustration of the SARS-CoV-2 viral coat
Wikispecies
Etymology
SARS-CoV + 2 [1]
Proper noun
SARS-CoV-2
- (virology) Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2; a virus which causes COVID-19 coronavirus disease, first discovered in 2019, in an outbreak that started in Wuhan, Hubei, China.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:SARS-CoV-2.
- (Can we verify(+) this sense?)(This is a hot sense, kept provisionally) (pathology, by extension) COVID-19; the disease caused by the virus.
Synonyms
(virus):
- 2019-nCoV (former name)
- HCoV-19, hCoV-19
Hypernyms
- (virus): Riboviria - realm; Orthornavirae - kingdom; Pisuviricota - phylum; Pisoniviricetes - class; Nidovirales - order; Cornidovirineae - suborder; Coronaviridae - family; Orthocoronavirinae - subfamily; Betacoronavirus - genus; Sarbecovirus - subgenus (per NCBI)
Hyponyms
(virus): The number of variants and their names shows a dynamic growth. See e.g. Variant_of_concern
- SARS-CoV-2 VOC
- B.1.1.7 (“UK variant, Alpha variant”)
- B.1.351 (“South African variant, Beta variant”)
- B.1.1.248 (“Brazilian variant, Gamma variant”)
- B.1.617.2 (“Delta variant”)
- B.1.1.529 (“Omikron variant”)
Coordinate terms
(virus):
closest known relatives to SARS-CoV-2
- BANAL-103/BANAL-20-103
- BANAL-236/BANAL-20-236
- BANAL-52/BANAL-20-52
- RmYN02
- RpYN06
- SARSr-Ra-BatCoV-RaTG13/BatCoV-RaTG13/RaTG13
(viral components)
- N501 (spike protein coding)
- E484 (spike protein coding)
- K417 (protein coding)
Related terms
(virus):
Related terms
- SARS-CoV
- SARS-CoV-1
- SARSr-CoV
- MERS-CoV
- MERSr-CoV
- nCoV
- CoV
- SARS
References
- BioRxviv, "Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus – The species and its viruses, a statement of the Coronavirus Study Group", Alexander E. Gorbalenya, 11 February 2020, International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses, Coronavirus Study Group
Further reading
SARS-CoV-2 on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
SARS-CoV-2 on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
SARS-CoV-2 on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- SARS-CoV-2 at National Center for Biotechnology Information
English
![](Images/wiktionary/20200227severe_acute_respiratory_syndrome_coronavirus_2(Korea_Centers_for_Disease_Control_and_Prevention)2.jpg.webp)
Micrograph of the SARS-CoV-2 virus particles
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈsɑːz ˈkəʊviː ˈtuː/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈsɑɹz ˈkoʊvi ˈtu/
Proper noun
SARS-CoV-2
- (virology) SARS-CoV-2; SARS-related coronavirus 2
- 2020 April, Lu, Xiaoxia, Liqiong Zhang, Hui Du, Jingjing Zhang, Yuan Y. Li, Jingyu Qu, Wenxin Zhang et al., “SARS-CoV-2 infection in children”, in New England Journal of Medicine, volume 382, number 17, DOI: :
- As of March 10, 2020, the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has been responsible for more than 110,000 infections and 4000 deaths worldwide, but data regarding the epidemiologic characteristics and clinical features of infected children are limited.
- 2021 June, Krause, Philip R., Thomas R. Fleming, Ira M. Longini, Richard Peto, Sylvie Briand, David L. Heymann, Valerie Beral, Matthew D. Snape, Helen Rees, Alba-Maria Ropero, Ran D. Balicer, Jakob P. Cramer, et al., “SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Vaccines”, in New England Journal of Medicine, DOI: :
- In addition to continuing to track the emergence of new variants of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), there are four major priorities for the global response to variants of concern.
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Synonyms
- Chinese virus
- COVID-19 virus
- novel coronavirus 2019
- Wuhan coronavirus
- Wuhan virus
Hypernyms
- virus
- coronavirus
Coordinate terms
- influenza
- MERS-related coronavirus
Related terms
- SARS-related coronavirus