rotavirus

From Latin rota (“wheel”) + virus. The name was first proposed in July 1974 in an article in The Lancet.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹəʊtəˌvaɪɹəs/

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rotavirus (plural rotaviruses or rotavirusses or rotavira or (rare) rotaviri or (proscribed) rotavirii)

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, 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.]

• duovirus (dated)

• rotavirus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Rotavirus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Internationalism (see English rotavirus).

• IPA^(key): /ˈrotɑʋirus/, [ˈro̞t̪ɑ̝ˌʋirus̠]
• Rhymes: -irus
• Syllabification^(key): ro‧ta‧vi‧rus

rotavirus

1. rotavirus

• “rotavirus”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎ (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-03

rotavirus m (plural rotavirus)

1. (virology) rotavirus

• “rotavirus”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014