AIDS

See also: aids, Aids, aïds, and Aïds

English

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /eɪdz/
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • Homophones: aids, aides
  • Rhymes: -eɪdz

Noun

AIDS (uncountable)

  1. (medicine, acronym) Acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
    • 2007, Clinical Pathology →ISBN, page 50:
      Patients with AIDS become highly susceptible to infection by intracellular microbes normally contained by T cells (Fig. 4.8).

Synonyms

(acquired immune deficiency syndrome):

Coordinate terms

Derived terms
  • (acquired immune deficiency syndrome): ARC (“AIDS-related complex”)

Translations

Anagrams

Czech

Etymology

From English AIDS.

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)

Noun

AIDS m

  1. AIDS

Finnish

Etymology

From English AIDS.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɑi̯ds/, [ˈɑi̯ds̠]
  • Hyphenation: AIDS

Noun

AIDS

  1. AIDS

Declension
Inflection of AIDS (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation)
nominative AIDS AIDSit
genitive AIDSin AIDSien
partitive AIDSia AIDSeja
illative AIDSiin AIDSeihin
singular plural
nominative AIDS AIDSit
accusative nom. AIDS AIDSit
gen. AIDSin
genitive AIDSin AIDSien
partitive AIDSia AIDSeja
inessive AIDSissa AIDSeissa
elative AIDSista AIDSeista
illative AIDSiin AIDSeihin
adessive AIDSilla AIDSeilla
ablative AIDSilta AIDSeilta
allative AIDSille AIDSeille
essive AIDSina AIDSeina
translative AIDSiksi AIDSeiksi
instructive — AIDSein
abessive AIDSitta AIDSeitta
comitative — AIDSeineen

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Derived terms

Greenlandic

Noun

AIDS

  1. AIDS
    • 1988, "AIDS-INFO", Atuagagdliutit
      Naqitigaaqqat AIDS pillugu paasisitsiniutit Afrikami kujallermi umiarsualivinnut agguaanneqarsimapput umiartortut nappaassuarmut ulorianartumut taassumunnga mianersoqquniarlugit, ...
      Pamphlets informing about AIDS were distributed to harbours in South Africa, so as to warn sailors against this dangerous big disease [nappaassuaq "big disease" might be idiomatic], ...

Japanese

Etymology

From English AIDS.[1][2][3][4]

Pronunciation

Noun

AIDS (katakana エイズ, rōmaji eizu)

  1. Synonym of 後天性免疫不全症候群 (kōtensei men'eki fuzen shōkōgun, “acquired immune deficiency syndrome”); AIDS

References
  1. 1995, 大辞泉 (Daijisen) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
  2. 1998, 広辞苑 (Kōjien), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Iwanami Shoten, →ISBN
  3. 2006, 大辞林 (Daijirin), Third Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  4. 1997, 新明解国語辞典 (Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten), Fifth Edition (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN
  5. 1998, NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: NHK, →ISBN

Latvian

Etymology

From English AIDS. Many names were proposed by ZA Terminoloģijas komisija, including, VIDS - virāla imūndeficīta sindroms, sarglaupe, imūnkaile, imūnkailums, imunokaile, imunokailums, AIS - antimūnsindroms, antimūns, bezimunitāte, bezimunitātes slimība, bezimūnkaite, imizorgs - "imunitātes izzudums organismā," imūndeficīts, imunitātes grāvējs, imunitātes zude, imūnkaite, imunozude, imūntrūce, imūnzude, mērlis, nonimuna, sargzude, limfšūngande or shorter gande. Eventually AIDS, a declinable form aidss and mērlis (as an "emotionally captivating" alternative) were officially approved for use by Terminoloģijas komisija. Only the acronym is currently in use. In Latvian AIDS is first attested in print in October 1986.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [âjts]
(file)

Noun

AIDS m or f (invariable)

  1. AIDS
    AIDS ir saīsināts jaunās slimības nosaukums (no angļu «Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrom» [sic] - iegūtā imūndeficīta sindroms). Pirmo reizi ar šo slimību sastapās ASV ārstu grupa Kalifornijas štatā 1981. gada jūnijā.[2]
    AIDS is a shortened name for the new disease (from English "Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome"). A group of US doctors in the State of California were the first to encounter this disease in June, 1981.

References
  1. “AIDS” in Juris Baldunčiks (1989), Anglicismi latviešu valodā (Rīga: «Zinātne») →ISBN.
  2. Veselība, October 1986, page 7.

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English AIDS.

Pronunciation

Noun

AIDS f (usually uncountable, plural AIDS)

  1. (medicine) AIDS (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)

Synonyms
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