coronavirus

Compound from English corona (corona, optical phenomenon consisting of circles visible around a bright celestial object such as the Sun the Moon, crown-like circle of light appearing around the sun, crown, en, l, coronavirus) + English virus derived from Latin corōna (crown, garland, wreath) derived from Ancient Greek κορώνη (wreath, garland, a type of crown, perhaps shearwater, anything curved, anything curved hooked, crown, a type of sea-bird, tip, end, something curved, point, curved stern of a ship, crow, a crow) derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (cut, turn, bend, cut off, curve, divide, wrinkle, scrape, sever, shorten, split, dry, jump, move, in the sense of an enclosure, shrink, swing, part, skimp), *(s)ker- (cut, turn, bend, cut off, curve, divide, wrinkle, scrape, sever, shorten, split, dry, jump, move, in the sense of an enclosure, shrink, swing, part, skimp).

Proto-Indo-European