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.]

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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

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

Spanish

Noun

rotavirus m (plural rotavirus)

  1. (virology) rotavirus

Further reading
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