morbus
See also: Morbus
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
morbus (plural morbuses or morbi)
- (medicine, formal) A disease.
- 1838, Thomas Hood, “A Rise at the Father of Angling”, in The Comic Annual, page 47:
- I thought he were took with the Morbus one day, I did with his nasty angle!
For “oh dear,” says he, and burst out in a cry, “oh my gut is all got of a tangle!”
- 1846, William Andrus Alcott, The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery, page 214:
- Probably no small share of our cholera morbuses, diarrhœas, and dysenteries, have their origin in this source.
- 1979, F. Kraupl Taylor, D. M. K. Taylor, The Concepts of Illness, Disease and Morbus, page 117:
- Unfortunately, most of the morbi accepted in modern medicine are only taxonomic entities whose causal derivation is merely partially known and therefore polygenic.
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”), the same root of morī (“to die”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmor.bus/, [ˈmɔrbʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmor.bus/, [ˈmɔrbus]
Noun edit
morbus m (genitive morbī); second declension
- (of the body or mind) a disease, illness, malady, sickness, disorder, distemper, ailment
- Synonyms: aegritūdō, malum, pestis, valētūdō, labor, incommodum, infirmitas
- Antonyms: salūs, valētūdō
- (of the mind) a fault, vice, failing
- (of the mind) Sorrow, grief, distress
- death
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | morbus | morbī |
Genitive | morbī | morbōrum |
Dative | morbō | morbīs |
Accusative | morbum | morbōs |
Ablative | morbō | morbīs |
Vocative | morbe | morbī |
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References edit
- “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
- he fell ill: in morbum incidit