morgue
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from French morgue. The second sense developed from the first, via "a prison examination room", probably with reference to the haughty attitude of the jailers.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /mɔːɡ/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /moɹɡ/, [mo̞ɹɡ]
- (without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /mɔː(ɹ)ɡ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)ɡ
Noun[edit]
morgue (plural morgues)
- (archaic) A supercilious or haughty attitude; arrogance.
- 1855, Sir Richard Burton, Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah, Dover, published 1964, page 34:
- They being newcomers, free from the western morgue so soon caught by Oriental Europeans, were particularly civil to me, even wishing to mix me a strong draught; but I was not so fortunate with all on board.
- A building or room where dead bodies are kept before their proper burial or cremation, (now) particularly in legal and law enforcement contexts.
- (archaic) The archive and background information division of a newspaper.
- 1921 July 2, Joseph F. Kwapil, Fourth Estate, page 5:
- Librarian Talks of Newspaper Morgue
- 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 109:
- Shand: get down to the Record and the Trib. See what they've got on Elliot in their morgues.
Translations[edit]
haughty attitude — see arrogance
place for dead people
|
Further reading[edit]
- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “morgue”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
French[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
morgue f (plural morgues)
- morgue, mortuary (place where dead bodies are stored)
- morgue, coldness, disdain, arrogance (supercilious attitude)
Descendants[edit]
Further reading[edit]
- “morgue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Hyphenation: mor‧gue
Audio (BR) (file)
Etymology 1[edit]
Borrowed from French morgue.[1]
Noun[edit]
morgue m (plural morgues)
- morgue
- Synonym: necrotério
Etymology 2[edit]
Verb[edit]
morgue
- inflection of morgar:
References[edit]
- ^ “morgue” in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024.
Spanish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
morgue f (plural morgues)
Further reading[edit]
- “morgue”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
Categories:
- English terms borrowed from French
- English terms derived from French
- English 1-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English terms with audio links
- Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)ɡ
- Rhymes:English/ɔː(ɹ)ɡ/1 syllable
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with archaic senses
- English terms with quotations
- en:Death
- French 1-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French terms with audio links
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French feminine nouns
- fr:Funeral
- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese terms with audio links
- Portuguese terms borrowed from French
- Portuguese terms derived from French
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Portuguese non-lemma forms
- Portuguese verb forms
- Spanish terms borrowed from French
- Spanish terms derived from French
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/oɾɡe
- Rhymes:Spanish/oɾɡe/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish feminine nouns
- es:Death