Aids

See also: aids, AIDS, aïds, and Aïds

English

Noun

Aids (uncountable)

1. Alternative letter-case form of AIDS (“acquired immune deficiency syndrome”).
   • 2023 August 7, Mia Malan, “A pandemic is not just a disease – it’s a political, social and economic crisis fuelled by inequality”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     If you were a South African health journalist during the late 1990s and early 2000s, you were mostly an Aids reporter.

Anagrams

• AISD, Dais, IADS, IADs, Said, Saïd, dais, daïs, sadi, said, sida

German

Alternative forms

• AIDS

Etymology

Borrowed from English AIDS, from acquired immune deficiency syndrome.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛɪ̯ts/, /eːts/

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Noun

Aids n (strong, genitive Aids, no plural)

1. AIDS (disease)

Declension

Declension of Aids [sg-only, neuter, strong]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	ein	das	Aids
genitive	eines	des	Aids
dative	einem	dem	Aids
accusative	ein	das	Aids

Derived terms

• Aids-Kranker, Aidskranker
• Aids-Toter, Aidstoter

See also

• Appendix:GfdS words of the year#1987

Further reading

• “Aids”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎^[2] (in German)
• “Aids” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon