morgue
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed 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
editmorgue (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
edithaughty attitude — see arrogance
place for dead people
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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
editNoun
editmorgue f (plural morgues)
- morgue, mortuary (place where dead bodies are stored)
- morgue, coldness, disdain, arrogance (supercilious attitude)
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “morgue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
editPronunciation
edit
Etymology 1
editBorrowed from French morgue.[1]
Noun
editmorgue m (plural morgues)
- morgue
- Synonym: necrotério
Etymology 2
editVerb
editmorgue
- inflection of morgar:
References
edit- ^ “morgue”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
Spanish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editmorgue f (plural morgues)
Further reading
edit- “morgue”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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