COVID-19 terminology: #Latest changes in our dictionaries

2020/04/21 Elhuyar Zientzia

• COVID-19
• Elhuyarren berriak

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In early February, four entries were updated in the Elhuyar Encyclopedic Dictionary of Science and Technology:

• coronavirus
• severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)
• Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS):
• packaging virus

Immediately after his international appointment we proposed a consideration in Basque for the disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2:2019-nCoV acute respiratory disease or COVID-19.

Since then, week by week, we have continued updating .elhuyar.eus dictionaries and added several terms to our particular covid-19 dictionary. We continue to work so the list will be extended and at the top the latest updates will appear. We have mainly updated dictionary entries in Basque and Spanish, but some of them already have consideration in French and English. Click on each word and you will directly access the web of Elhuyar dictionaries.

Updated at 21-4-20