HIV

• IPA^(key): /ˌeɪtʃˌaɪˈviː/

• Audio (US):

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HIV (uncountable)

1. (virology) Initialism of human immunodeficiency virus. [from 1986]

   Synonyms: (pleonastic) HIV virus, (euphemistic) house in Virginia; (dated) LAV

   Hyponyms: HIV-1, HIV-2

   • 1998, Gavin Dillard, In the Flesh: Undressing for Success, page 141:

     There have been other drugs since reticulose that I became aware of the successes of, some even able to claim "cure," even turning people from HIV-positive to negative.

   • 2015 December 31, “Investigating Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Program Efficiency Gains through Subpopulation Prioritization: Insights from Application to Zambia”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Accordingly, we varied HIV transmission probability per coital act, duration of each HIV stage, frequency of coital acts per HIV stage, duration of partnership, degree of assortativeness, scale parameter in the gamma distribution of the population across the risk groups, and exponent parameter in the power-law function of the distribution of sexual-risk behavior.

   • 2022 June 28, Jamie Millar, “'SARM Goblins': The Young Men Hooked on Steroids”, in VICE‎^[2], archived from the original on 7 November 2023:

     A 2013 study found the HIV rate among injecting IPED users in England and Wales was 1.5 percent, comparable to 1.2 percent among users of psychoactive drugs like heroin and crack.

2. (engineering) Initialism of header isolation valve.
3. (aeronautics) Initialism of helium isolation valve.
4. (aviation) Initialism of hydraulic isolation valve.

• FIV
• SIV

• IHV, IVH

Orthographic borrowing from English HIV.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhiʋ/, [ˈhiʋ]
• IPA^(key): /ˈhoːˌiːˌʋeː/, [ˈho̞ːˌiːˌʋe̞ː]
• Rhymes: -iʋ, -eː
• Syllabification^(key): HIV
• Hyphenation^(key): HIV

HIV

1. (virology) HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)

If pronounced /hiʋ/:

If pronounced /hoːˌiːˌʋeː/:

• “HIV”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[3] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2 July 2023

Orthographic borrowing from English HIV.

• (Tokyo) エッチアイブイ [ètchíáíbúꜜì] (Nakadaka – [6])
• IPA^(key): [e̞t̚t͡ɕia̠ibɯ̟i]

HIV(エイチアイブイ) or HIV(エッチアイブイ) • (eichiaibui or etchiaibui) 

1. synonym of 人免疫不全ウイルス (hito men'eki fuzen uirusu, “human immunodeficiency virus”); HIV

Orthographic borrowing from English HIV.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxif/

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• Rhymes: -if
• Syllabification: HIV

HIV m inan (indeclinable)

1. HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)

• HIV in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• HIV in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Orthographic borrowing from English HIV.

HIV m (uncountable)

1. (medicine) HIV (human immunodeficiency virus)

   Synonym: VIH

• “HIV”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026