Coronatide

English

WOTD – 6 March 2023

Etymology

People wearing facemasks while attending a Eucharistic service at the Barasoain Church in Malolos, Bulacan, Philippines, in March 2022 during Coronatide.

From corona(virus) +‎ -tide (suffix meaning ‘time’, denoting seasons), by analogy with liturgical seasons such as Christmastide and Eastertide.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹəʊnəˌtaɪd/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹoʊnəˌtaɪd/
• Hyphenation: Co‧ro‧na‧tide

Proper noun

Coronatide

1. (Christianity, neologism) The period of the COVID-19 pandemic.

   Synonyms: coronatime, coronatimes, Covidtide

   • 2020 July 10, Jana Riess, “If you want to win Latter-Day Saints back to the church, shame and fear are not how to do it”, in The Salt Lake Tribune‎^[1], Salt Lake City, Ut.: Salt Lake Tribune, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-12-31:

     Nowhere in the letter do the writers express a desire to know what is going on with the recipient; they do not wish to listen, learn, or truly befriend. They seem, above all, to want compliance. They want butts in pews, or at least the coronatide equivalent.

   • 2020 August 12, David Gibson, “Jazz Vespers”, in Commonweal‎^[2], volume 147, number 8, New York, N.Y.: Commonweal Foundation, published September 2020, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-21, page 64:

     But Coronatide, as our extraordinary time has been dubbed, obliterated the usual sacred spaces and practices.

   • 2021, William Franklin, “Preface: Two Movements of the Past that Inform the Future”, in C[harles] Andrew Doyle, Embodied Liturgy: Virtual Reality and Liturgical Theology in Conversation, New York, N.Y.: Church Publishing, →ISBN, page xx:

     In this unsettling season of Coronatide we find ourselves beset by change, some welcome, some unwelcome.

   • 2021 spring–summer, Anna Lewton-Brain, “Katherine R. Larson, The Matter of Song in Early Modern England: Texts in and of the Air. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. xx + 245 pp. + 16 illus. + 14 tracks. $77. [book review]”, in Donald R. Dickson, editor, Seventeenth-Century News‎^[3], volume 79, numbers 1 and 2, College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 30:

     Charles Butler's remarks in The Principles of Musik that "a Singing-man neede never fear the Astma, Peripneumonia, or Consumption: or any other like affections of that vital part: which ar the death of many students," seems particularly apt advice for the current Coronatide—an incentive perhaps for us all to sing more, even if we are stuck at home.

   • 2022 October 4, Katie Burke, “Ready for Mass: Churching like a pro”, in The Catholic Sun‎^[4], Phoenix, Ariz.: Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-16:

     Coronatide made it hard to go an hour or two without snacking, but we're past that now, and Mass is definitely not the place for the munchies.

Translations

period of the COVID-19 pandemic

• Finnish: korona-aika
• Macedonian: please add this translation if you can
• Swedish: coronatider c pl
• Welsh: adeg COVID f

Further reading

• COVID-19 pandemic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia