English

Wuhan pneumonia

A respiratory disease first reported in Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019, from Wuhan + pneumonia.

Mandarin 武漢

English Wuhan

Proto-Indo-European *plew- ‘to fly, flow, run’

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Proto-Hellenic *pléwmōn

Ancient Greek πλεύμων ‘lung’

Ancient Greek πνεύμων ‘lung’

Ancient Greek πνευμονία ‘lung disease’

The story

A respiratory disease first reported in Wuhan, China on December 31, 2019, from Wuhan + pneumonia.

noun A form of pneumonia due to infection by a coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), which is genetically similar to SARS and MERS.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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