virus.
virus; a type of submicroscopic infectious organism
Meaning & usage
virus; a type of submicroscopic infectious organism
virus (in quantity)
virus, viral illness
virus; a type of spreading malware
virus; any type of malware
any malicious or dangerous entity that spreads from one place or person to another.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from Dutch virus, from Latin vīrus (“poison, slime, venom”), via rhotacism from Proto-Italic *weizos, from Proto-Indo-European *wisós (“fluidity, slime, poison”). Doublet of bisa. The computing sense is a semantic loan from English virus.
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