Ba'al is also an ordinary common noun in Hebrew, a synonym of adon, but with a wider range of meanings. It may mean 'lord', 'master', 'owner', 'possessor', 'husband', or 'tyrant'. When used as a verb, it may mean 'he married', 'he ruled', or 'he rejected'.
The name Ebolavirus is derived from the Ebola River in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), the location of the 1976 outbreak, and the taxonomic suffix-virus (denoting a viral genus). This genus was introduced in 1998 as the Ebola-like viruses.
The name of the type subgenus, Equisetum, means horse hair in Latin, while the name of the other subgenus, Hippochaete, means horse hair in Greek. Hybrids are common, but hybridization has only been recorded between members of the same subgenus.