morbus

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English

Etymology

From Latin morbus.

Noun

morbus (plural morbuses or morbi)

  1. (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.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

    From Proto-Indo-European *mer- (to die), the same root of morī (to die), with an extension *-bʰo-, possibly *-bʰh₂o- from *bʰeh₂- (to appear), and thus meaning “appearing like death”.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    morbus m (genitive morbī); second declension

    1. (of the body or mind) a disease, illness, malady, sickness, disorder, distemper, ailment
      Synonyms: aegritūdō, malum, pestis, valētūdō, labor, incommodum, infirmitas
      Antonyms: salūs, valētūdō
      • c. 99 BCE – 55 BCE, Lucretius, De rerum natura 5.220:
        Cur anni tempora morbos adportant?
        Why do the seasons of the year bring maladies?
      • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 4.763–764:
        ‘pelle procul morbōs; valeant hominēsque gregēsque,
        et valeant vigilēs, prōvida turba, canēs.’
        ‘‘Drive diseases far away; may both men and flocks be healthy,
        and healthy too the watching dogs, that foreseeing pack.’’

        (A shepherd’s prayer to Pales.)
    2. (of the mind) a fault, vice, failing
    3. (of the mind) Sorrow, grief, distress
    4. death

    Declension

    Second-declension noun.

    Case Singular Plural
    Nominative morbus morbī
    Genitive morbī morbōrum
    Dative morbō morbīs
    Accusative morbum morbōs
    Ablative morbō morbīs
    Vocative morbe morbī

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    References

    • 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, 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