About: http://data.cimple.eu/claim-review/3ba8ade4f7662b318f4684b3123d7892c22454b1e601848f79bd9a4b

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- owl:sameAs
- Inference Rule:

About: http://data.cimple.eu/claim-review/3ba8ade4f7662b318f4684b3123d7892c22454b1e601848f79bd9a4b Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:ClaimReview, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	schema:ClaimReview
http://data.cimple...lizedReviewRating	not credible
schema:url	http://checkyourfact.com/2020/06/30/fact-check-covid-19-translate-see-sheep-surrender-ancient-language/
schema:text	FACT CHECK: Does COVID-19 Translate To ‘See A Sheep Surrender’ In An Ancient Language? An image shared on Facebook claims COVID-19 means “see a sheep surrender” in an ancient language. Verdict: False COVID-19 stands for “coronavirus disease 2019.” Fact Check: Social media has become replete with misinformation about the novel coronavirus that has sickened some 10.3 million people around the world to date. An image on Facebook claims the nomenclature for COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, translates to “see a sheep surrender.” “‘Ovid’ is Latin for a sheep,” read’s the image’s text. “COVID starts with a C, which also means ‘see’ in ancient language. 19 was known as the ‘number of surrender’ in ancient times. C-OVID 19 = ‘See A Sheep Surrender.'” But the post’s claim doesn’t hold up. The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Feb. 11 that COVID-19 stands for “coronavirus disease 2019,” with the number “19” referring to the year the virus was first detected. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website provides the same expansion for the acronym. “We now have a name for the disease and it is COVID-19. And I will spell it: C-O-V-I-D hyphen one nine,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, at a Feb. 11 press conference. “‘CO,’ C-O, stands for ‘corona,’ V-I stands for ‘virus,’ ‘D’ for ‘disease,’ so ‘COVID.'” “Ovid” is not the latin word for “sheep,” further adding to the post’s dubiousness. The English-to-Latin dictionary on the University of Notre Dame website lists the Latin word “ovis” as one of the words for “sheep.” The letter “C” is an abbreviation for the number “100” in Roman numerals, not “see” in Latin. “Ovis means sheep. C is an abbreviation for 100 (centum),” Dr Paul Roche, an Associate Professor in Latin at the University of Sydney, told AFP Fact Check. “I’ve never heard the number 19 as having any significance in this respect.”
schema:mentions	University of Notre Dame Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Agence France-Presse Acronym Sydney Sheep Latin World Health Organization Social media Facebook Coronavirus Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Hyphen Roman numerals Ovid dbpedia:Centum_and_satem_languages dbpedia:Paul_Roche dbpedia:COVID-19 dbpedia:Tedros_Adhanom_Ghebreyesus dbpedia:Director-General_of_the_World_Health_Organization
schema:reviewRating	False
schema:author	check-your-fact
schema:datePublished	2020-07-01 (xsd:date)
schema:inLanguage	English
schema:itemReviewed	http://data.cimple.eu/claim/aedeeac2e864111fe0265f68e8a9872b3466e1a275eac9263bcd32b3

Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 5 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software