AIDS

See also: aids, Aids, aïds, and Aïds

English

Main symptoms of AIDS

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /eɪdz/
  • (file)
  • Homophones: aids, aides
  • Rhymes: -eɪdz

Noun

AIDS (uncountable)

  1. (pathology, acronym) Acquired immune deficiency syndrome. [from 1982]
    • 2007, Clinical Pathology, →ISBN, page 50:
      Patients with AIDS become highly susceptible to infection by intracellular microbes normally contained by T cells (Fig. 4.8).
    Synonyms: (dated) GRID, (dated, slang) gay cancer, (dated, slang) gay plague

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Descendants

Translations

Adjective

AIDS (comparative more AIDS, superlative most AIDS)

  1. (slang, vulgar) Extremely annoying or frustrating.
    Dude, this game is so fucking AIDS.
    Synonym: cancer

Anagrams


Albanian

Etymology

Borrowed from English AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome).

Noun

aids/AIDS m (indefinite plural -, definite singular aidsi (AIDS-i), definite plural -)

  1. AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
    sindromi i mungesës së imunitetit të fituar
    acquired immune deficiency syndrome

Declension

Synonyms

Further reading

  • noun aids • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)

Czech

Alternative forms

Etymology

From English AIDS.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈajts], [ˈɛjts]
  • (file)

Noun

AIDS m inan

  1. AIDS

Finnish

Etymology

From English AIDS.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɑi̯ds/, [ˈɑi̯ds̠]
  • Rhymes: -ɑids
  • Syllabification(key): AIDS

Noun

AIDS

  1. AIDS

Declension

Inflection of AIDS (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative AIDS AIDSit
genitive AIDSin AIDSien
partitive AIDSia AIDSeja
illative AIDSiin AIDSeihin
singular plural
nominative AIDS AIDSit
accusative nom. AIDS AIDSit
gen. AIDSin
genitive AIDSin AIDSien
partitive AIDSia AIDSeja
inessive AIDSissa AIDSeissa
elative AIDSista AIDSeista
illative AIDSiin AIDSeihin
adessive AIDSilla AIDSeilla
ablative AIDSilta AIDSeilta
allative AIDSille AIDSeille
essive AIDSina AIDSeina
translative AIDSiksi AIDSeiksi
instructive AIDSein
abessive AIDSitta AIDSeitta
comitative AIDSeineen
Possessive forms of AIDS (type risti)
possessor singular plural
1st person AIDSini AIDSimme
2nd person AIDSisi AIDSinne
3rd person AIDSinsa

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German

Pronunciation

  • (file)

Noun

AIDS n (strong, genitive AIDS, no plural)

  1. (less common) Alternative letter-case form of Aids

Declension


Greenlandic

Noun

AIDS

  1. AIDS
    • 1988, "AIDS-INFO", Atuagagdliutit
      Naqitigaaqqat AIDS pillugu paasisitsiniutit Afrikami kujallermi umiarsualivinnut agguaanneqarsimapput umiartortut nappaassuarmut ulorianartumut taassumunnga mianersoqquniarlugit, ...
      Pamphlets informing about AIDS were distributed to harbours in South Africa, so as to warn sailors against this dangerous big disease [nappaassuaq "big disease" might be idiomatic], ...

Hungarian

Etymology

From English AIDS, initialism of acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈeːt͡sː], [ˈeːt͡s]
  • Hyphenation: AIDS
  • Rhymes: -eːt͡sː, -eːt͡s

Noun

AIDS (plural AIDS-ek)

  1. (pathology) AIDS
    Synonym: szerzett immunhiányos tünetegyüttes

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative AIDS AIDS-ek
accusative AIDS-et AIDS-eket
dative AIDS-nek AIDS-eknek
instrumental AIDS-szel AIDS-ekkel
causal-final AIDS-ért AIDS-ekért
translative AIDS-szé AIDS-ekké
terminative AIDS-ig AIDS-ekig
essive-formal AIDS-ként AIDS-ekként
essive-modal
inessive AIDS-ben AIDS-ekben
superessive AIDS-en AIDS-eken
adessive AIDS-nél AIDS-eknél
illative AIDS-be AIDS-ekbe
sublative AIDS-re AIDS-ekre
allative AIDS-hez AIDS-ekhez
elative AIDS-ből AIDS-ekből
delative AIDS-ről AIDS-ekről
ablative AIDS-től AIDS-ektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
AIDS-é AIDS-eké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
AIDS-éi AIDS-ekéi
Possessive forms of AIDS
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. AIDS-em AIDS-eim
2nd person sing. AIDS-ed AIDS-eid
3rd person sing. AIDS-e AIDS-ei
1st person plural AIDS-ünk AIDS-eink
2nd person plural AIDS-etek AIDS-eitek
3rd person plural AIDS-ük AIDS-eik
  • As a recently borrowed term, the naturalized pronunciation of AIDS is variable. Consequently, orthographic reference works indicate different spellings for the instrumental and translative cases.
    With the pronunciation [ˈeːt͡sː] (phonetic respelling: édsz): instrumental – AIDS-szel, translative – AIDS-szé.[1]
    With the pronunciation [ˈeːt͡s] (phonetic respelling: éc): instrumental – AIDS-cel, translative – AIDS-cé.[2]

Derived terms

  • AIDS-es

References

  1. Tóth, Etelka (ed.). Magyar helyesírási szótár: A magyar helyesírás szabályai tizenkettedik kiadása szerint (’Dictionary of Hungarian Orthography: according to the 12th edition of the regulations of the Hungarian orthography’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2017. →ISBN Online version
  2. Laczkó, Krisztina and Attila Mártonfi. Helyesírás (’Orthography’). Budapest: Osiris Kiadó, 2006. →ISBN

Japanese

Etymology

From English AIDS.[1][2][3][4]

Pronunciation

Noun

AIDS(エイズ) (eizu) 

  1. Synonym of 後天性免疫不全症候群 (kōtensei men'eki fuzen shōkōgun, acquired immune deficiency syndrome); AIDS

References

  1. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  3. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Latvian

Etymology

From English AIDS. Many names were proposed by ZA Terminoloģijas komisija, including, VIDS - virāla imūndeficīta sindroms, sarglaupe, imūnkaile, imūnkailums, imunokaile, imunokailums, AIS - antimūnsindroms, antimūns, bezimunitāte, bezimunitātes slimība, bezimūnkaite, imizorgs - "imunitātes izzudums organismā," imūndeficīts, imunitātes grāvējs, imunitātes zude, imūnkaite, imunozude, imūntrūce, imūnzude, mērlis, nonimuna, sargzude, limfšūngande or shorter gande. Eventually AIDS, a declinable form aidss and mērlis (as an "emotionally captivating" alternative) were officially approved for use by Terminoloģijas komisija. Only the acronym is currently in use. In Latvian AIDS is first attested in print in October 1986.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [âjts]
(file)

Noun

AIDS m or f (invariable)

  1. AIDS
    AIDS ir saīsināts jaunās slimības nosaukums (no angļu «Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrom» [sic] - iegūtā imūndeficīta sindroms). Pirmo reizi ar šo slimību sastapās ASV ārstu grupa Kalifornijas štatā 1981. gada jūnijā.[2]
    AIDS is a shortened name for the new disease (from English "Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome"). A group of US doctors in the State of California were the first to encounter this disease in June, 1981.

References

  1. “AIDS” in Juris Baldunčiks (1989), Anglicismi latviešu valodā (Rīga: «Zinātne») →ISBN.
  2. Veselība, October 1986, page 7.

Polish

Etymology

Orthographic borrowing from English AIDS.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɛjts/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛjts
  • Syllabification: AIDS

Noun

AIDS n (indeclinable)

  1. AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)

Further reading

  • AIDS in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • AIDS in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English AIDS.

Pronunciation

 

Noun

AIDS f (usually uncountable, plural AIDS)

  1. (Brazil, pathology) AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
    Synonym: (Portugal) SIDA

Derived terms

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