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See also: Mormo
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek Μορμώ (Mormṓ, “a hideous she-monster, a bugbear”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mormo (plural mormos)
- (obsolete) A bugbear; false terror.
- 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe:
- Thus the Atheists, who derive the origin of religion from fear, first put an affrighful vizard upon the Deity, and then conclude it to be but a mormo or bugbear, the creature of fear and fancy.
- 1727, William Warburton, Critical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Causes of Miracles:
- the mormos and bugbears of a frighted rabble
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mormo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Attested since 1409. From Latin morbus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mormo m (plural mormos)
- (veterinary medicine) glanders
- (medicine) cold
- (medicine) tiredness
- (medicine) pus
- mucus; snot
- Synonym: moco
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mormo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mormo”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mormo”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “mormo”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
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