morbus

See also: Morbus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin morbus

Noun

morbus

1. (medicine, formal) disease

Anagrams

• Borums

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Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”), the same root of mori (“to die”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.bus/, [ˈmɔrbʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.bus/, [ˈmɔrbus]

Noun

morbus m (genitive morbī); second declension

1. (of the body or mind) A disease, sickness, disorder, distemper, ailment, illness, malady.
2. (of the mind) A fault, vice, failing.
3. (of the mind) Sorrow, grief, distress.
4. death (prima morbi accessione, at the first approach of death)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	morbus	morbī
Genitive	morbī	morbōrum
Dative	morbō	morbīs
Accusative	morbum	morbōs
Ablative	morbō	morbīs
Vocative	morbe	morbī

Derived terms

• morbidus
• morbifer
• morbificō

• morbōsus
• Morbōvia

Related terms

• morbidē
• morbōsitās

Descendants

• French: morve
• Italian: morbo
• Portuguese: morbo, mormo

• Romanian: morb
• Sicilian: morvu
• Spanish: morbo, muermo

References

• “morbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “morbus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• morbus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• morbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • he fell ill: in morbum incidit
    
  • to be attacked by disease: morbo tentari or corripi
    
  • to be laid on a bed of sickness: morbo afflīgi
    
  • to be seriously ill: gravi morbo affectum esse, conflictari, vexari
    
  • the disease gets worse: morbus ingravescit
    
  • to be carried off by a disease: morbo absūmi (Sall. Iug. 5. 6)
    
  • to recover from a disease: ex morbo convalescere (not reconvalescere)
    
  • to recruit oneself after a severe illness: e gravi morbo recreari or se colligere
    
  • to excuse oneself on the score of health: valetudinem (morbum) excusare (Liv. 6. 22. 7)
    
  • to die a natural death: morbo perire, absūmi, consūmi
    
  • to pretend to be ill: simulare morbum
    
  • to pretend not to be ill: dissimulare morbum
    
  • to plead ill-health as an excuse for absence: excusare morbum, valetudinem