English

alpharetrovirus

Alpharetrovirus comes from mul-tax Alpharetrovirus.

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

Egyptian E1

Phoenician 𐤀 ‘aleph’

Ancient Greek ἄλφα

English alpha

Latin retrō ‘back, backwards, behind’

Proto-Indo-European *wisós ‘fluidity, slime, poison’

Proto-Italic *weizos

Latin vīrus ‘poison, slime, venom’

Middle English virus

English virus

Every English word from mul-tax Alpharetrovirus

noun Any virus of the genus Alpharetrovirus.

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