Sars

Sars (uncountable)

1. (medicine) Acronym of severe acute respiratory syndrome; also SARS.
   • 2020 April 10, Stephen Buranyi, “The WHO v coronavirus: why it can't handle the pandemic”, in The Guardian‎:

     The WHO’s response to Sars was considered a huge success. Fewer than 1,000 people worldwide died of the disease, despite it reaching a total of 26 countries.

Sars

1. plural of Sar

• ASSR, RSAs

From a pre-Roman substrate of Iberia; a root noun from the Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to flow”).

View of the river

The Sar in Padrón, near its mouth

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sars/, [s̠ärs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sars/, [särs]

Sars f sg (genitive Sartis); third declension

1. A river of Gallaecia, Hispania Tarraconensis, now the Sar

Third-declension noun, singular only.

• Old Galician-Portuguese: Sar m
  • Galician: Sar

• Curchin, Leonard A. (2008). "The toponyms of the Roman Galicia: New Study", Cuadernos de Estudios Gallegos, LV (121), pages 109-136.
• “Sars”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• Sars in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.