morvu

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Sicilian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Latin morbus (“illness”).

Noun[edit]

morvu m (uncountable)

  1. snot (nose mucus)
    Synonyms: brugghiu, mòccaru, muccu, moccu
  2. (medicine) glanders
  3. (in general) illness

References[edit]

  • Pasqualino (c. 1790) “morvu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 3, page 193
  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “morvu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2557
  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 169: “il moccio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
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