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Latin
Etymology
A facetious formation: morbus (“disease”, “sickness”, “malady”) + -ōvia.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Morbōvia f sg (genitive Morbōviae); first declension
- (vulgar, in execrations) the land of disease, sickdom
c. 69 CE – 122 CE,
Suetonius,
Vespasianus 14:
- quidam ex officio admissionis simul expellens abire Morboviam iusserat
- one of those whose office it was to introduce people to the emperor, thrusting him out, bid him go to Morbonia (i.e., go to hell)
Declension
First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.
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