morbo
Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]morbo (accusative singular morbon, plural morboj, accusative plural morbojn) (rare)
Usage notes
[edit]The native synonym malsano is overwhelmingly preferred over the rare scientific loanword morbo in every context. It sometimes appears in the names of eponymous diseases such as morbo de Parkinson.
Derived terms
[edit]- morba (“morbid, pathological”)
Interlingua
[edit]Noun
[edit]morbo (plural morbos)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]morbo m (plural morbi)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- morbo in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- morbo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]morbō
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin morbus, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mer-. Doublet of mormo.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: mor‧bo
Noun
[edit]morbo m (plural morbos)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “morbo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “morbo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
- “morbo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Lingua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “morbo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin morbus. Doublet of muermo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]morbo m (plural morbos)
- (pathology) disease
- attraction for unwholesome things; morbid interest
- morbid interest in other people or things
- peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste; kink
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “morbo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
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- Esperanto terms derived from Latin
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- Rhymes:Esperanto/orbo
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- Rhymes:Italian/ɔrbo
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- Rhymes:Spanish/oɾbo
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- Spanish lemmas
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- es:Diseases