Taxon Etymology

Etymology: from the Old English poc, meaning “pustule”, referring to the disease pox associated with some viruses of the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from "precursor of certain plasmids", referring to the evolutionary relationship between viviricetessome viruses in the taxa and some plasmids; the suffix -viricota for phylum taxa

Etymology: from polinton-like supergroup; the suffix -viricotina for subphylum taxa

Etymology: from the Latin aqua, meaning water, and polinton (a reference to polintons first being associated with aquatic environments); the suffix -viricetes for class taxa

Etymology: from the Greek ἀρχός (archo), meaning "ruler, widespread", and polinton; the suffix -virales for order taxa

Etymology: from phytoplankton and polinton; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin pharingea, meaning throat (a reference to adenovirids infecting adenoids); the suffix -viricetes for class taxa

Etymology: to honour Wallace P. Rowe, one of the co-discoverers of adenoviruses in 1953, with the addition of the vowel a; the suffix -virales for order taxa

Etymology: from adenoid, the tissue where adenoviruses, originally named adenoid degeneration viruses, were discoverd in 1953; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the initial naming of adintoviruses as polinton “transposons", referring to the type B DNA polymerase (PolB) and retrovirus-like integrase genes encoded by members of the taxon; the suffix -viricetes for class taxa

Etymology: from the Latin amphi, meaning both, and polinton (a reference to the two lifestyles of polintoviricetes as transposons or viruses); the suffix -virales for order taxa

Etymology: from the Greek εὖ (eu) meaning true, and polinton (a reference to these viruses being the first polintoviricetes to be classified); the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from virophage; the suffix -viricetes for class taxa

Etymology: from divergent penton proteins, referring to the exceptional genome organisation of members of the taxon; the suffix ‑virales for order taxa

Etymology: from rumen virophages, referring to the source of members in the family; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from large virus dependent or associated, referring to the dependence on, or association with, a large dsDNA virus of the family Mimiviridae; the suffix -virales for order taxa

Etymology: from Maverick-related virus and the suffix -viro, referring to the first isolated member of the taxon; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from Mimivirus dependent or associated, referring to the replication of taxon members in association with a mimivirus; the suffix ‑virales for order taxa

Etymology: from Sputnik virus 1, and the addition of the vowel o, referring to the first isolated member of the family; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Lithuanian priklausomas, meaning "dependent", a reference to the family Lavidaviridae (large virus dependent associated) a member of the taxon; the suffix -virales for order taxa

Etymology: from Mary Burton Gulliver, the wife of Lemuel Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels (a novel by Jonathon Swift) and the addition of the suffix -viro, referring to members of the family as most closely related to the large virophages; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from Dishui Lake in China, where the first member of the family, Chlorella virophage isolate SW01, was obtained and the addition of the suffix -viro, referring to members of the family as related to the large virophages; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from Lemuel Gulliver, the main character of Gulliver’s Travels (a novel by Jonathon Swift) and the addition of the suffix -viro, referring to members of the family as “giant" virophages but still relatively small compared to their associated giant viruses; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin omni meaning “all or everywhere”, the Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē) meaning "lake" and the addition of the suffix -viro, referring to freshwater environments, since members of this virophage family were detected across a broad geographic range of freshwater lakes; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from predecessor of polintoviricetes; the suffix -viricotina for subphylum taxa

Etymology: from tectivirid-like, referring to viruses of the family Tectiviridae; the suffix -viricetes for class taxa

Etymology: from Kalamazoo, USA, where Pseudomonas phage PRD1 a member of the taxon was first isolated ; the suffix -virales for order taxa

Etymology: from the Latin tectus, meaning "covered", referring to a lipid envelope covering the DNA compartment and separating the genomic DNA from a protein capsid in viruses of the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin volvere, meaning “to roll”, referring to the rolling circle replication uniformly used by viruses in this realm; the suffix ‑viria for realm taxa.

Etymology: to honour Frederick Sanger, who used “phage phiX174” to deduce the first-ever DNA genome sequence; the suffix -virae for kingdom taxa

Etymology: from Escherichia phage phiX174, a member of the taxon that has been central to the history of virology and molecular biology; the suffix -viricota for phylum taxa

Etymology: from the Ancient Greek μικρός (mikros), meaning "small", referring to the size of the genomes of viruses in the class; the suffix -viricetes for class taxa

Etymology: from the Sanskrit अल्प (alpa), meaning "small, referring to the size of virus genomes in the order; the suffix -virales for order taxa

Etymology: from the Danish lille, meaning "small", referring to the size of virus genomes in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Norwegian liten, meaning "small", referring to the size of virus genomes in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Islandic lítil (litill), meaning "small", referring to the size of virus genomes in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Finnish pieni, meanimg "small", referring to the size of virus genomes in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Finnish pikku,meaning "small", referring to the size of virus genomes of in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from Amoy, the romanized name of Xiamen University, where the founding member of this taxon was isolated; the suffix -virales for order taxa

Etymology: from Liberbacter sp., the hosts of representative viruses in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Lithuanian mažas (mazas), meaning "small", referring to the size of virus genomes in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin bulla, meaning "knob" or "stud", referring to the major spike protein on the surface of member viruses; the suffix ‑virales for order taxa

Etymology: from the Ancient Greek Greek εὖ (eu), meaning "true " and Bullaviridae, a defunct family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Spanish pequeño (pequeno), meaning "small", referring to the size of virus genomes in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Italian piccolo, meaning "small", referring to the size of virus genomes in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Sardinian piticcu, meaning "small", referring to the size of virus genomes in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Japanese gokusho, meaning "very small", referring to the genome size of member viruses, which are smaller than other microviruses; the suffix ‑virales for order taxa

Etymology: from the first letter of the Greek alphabet alpha and the Japanese gokusho, meaning "very small", referring to the genome size of member viruses; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the second letter of the Greek alphabet beta and the Japanese gokusho, meaning "very small", referring to the genome size of member viruses; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from Group D and the vowel i, a previous name for this clade of viruses; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Occitan pichon, meaning "small", referring to the size of virus genomes in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Sanskrit सूक्ष्म (sukschma), meaning "minute", referring to the size of virus genomes in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from reekeekee, a phonic, English-style spelling of the French word riquiqui, meaning "small", referring to the size of virus genomes in the order; the suffix -virales for order taxa

Etymology: from the Molengue (Equatorial Guinea, Gabon) osike, meaning "small", referring to the size of virus genomes in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from roo-doo-doo, a phonic, English-style spelling of the French word roudoudou, referring to a small sweet and referencing the the size of virus genomes in the order; the suffix -virales for order taxa

Etymology: from the Swahili (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania) kidogo, meaning "a little", referring to the size of the genomes of viruses in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the English secret, meaning ‘hidden’ referring to two families in the order that were only discovered lately; the suffix -virales for order taxa

Etymology: from the Spanish chico, meaning "small", referring to the size of virus genomes in the family; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin occultatum, meaning “hidden”, referring to a group of virus discovered lately; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Romanian taină (taina), meaning "secret", referring to a group of virus discovered lately; the suffix -viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from NALDV meaning "nuclear arthropod large DNA viruses; the suffix ‑viricetes for class taxa

Etymology: from “late expression factor”, referring to genes identified in a screen for ORFs required for, or supporting, late-phase baculovirus transcription; the suffix -virales for order taxa

Etymology: from the Latin baculus, meaning “stick", referring to the morphology of virions of viruses in the family; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa

Etymology: from the Latin filamentum, meaning “filament”, referring to the filamentous-shape of virus particles observed in infected tissues; the suffix –viridae for family taxa.

Etymology: from the Ancient Greek ὑπέρ (hupér), meaning, “excessive” and τροφή (trophḗ), meaning “nourishment", and sialoadenitis, meaning salivary gland inflammation referring to the salivary gland hypertrophy in hosts infected by viruses in the family; the suffix ‑viridae for family taxa