lentivirus
noun
lentivirus is a noun meaning “Any of a group of retroviruses, of the genus Lentivirus, which have long incubation periods” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-E-N-T-I-V-I-R-U-S, and it appears about once in every 46 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of lentivirus is lentiviruses.
What does lentivirus mean?
noun
- 1
Any of a group of retroviruses, of the genus Lentivirus, which have long incubation periods.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of lentivirus
- lentiviruses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lentivirus?
Lentivirus appears about once in every 46 million words in written English, the 209,386th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Lentivirus in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense any retrovirus of the genus Lentivirus:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Portuguese | lentivírus |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does lentivirus come from?
From the genus name.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).