morbific

English

Alternative forms

• morbifick (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French morbifique, or its source, post-classical morbificus, from Latin morbus (“sickness”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /mɔːˈbɪf.ɪk/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /mɔɹˈbɪf.ɪk/
• Rhymes: -ɪfɪk

Adjective

morbific (comparative more morbific, superlative most morbific)

1. That causes disease; sickening, pathogenic. [from 17th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 240:

     He accepted that the body was a machine, mathematically understandable, but disease was the effort by nature or the soul to expel morbific matter, and physiology was the science of that struggle.

2. Pertaining to or caused by disease; diseased. [from 17th c.]

Derived terms

• morbifically

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French morbifique.

Adjective

morbific m or n (feminine singular morbifică, masculine plural morbifici, feminine/neuter plural morbifice)

1. morbific

Declension

Declension of morbific

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	morbific		morbifică		morbifici	morbifice
	definite	morbificul		morbifica		morbificii	morbificele
genitive- dative	indefinite	morbific		morbifice		morbifici	morbifice
	definite	morbificului		morbificei		morbificilor	morbificelor

References

• morbific in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN