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Latin
Etymology
morior (“die”) + -bundus
Pronunciation
Adjective
moribundus (feminine moribunda, neuter moribundum); first/second-declension adjective
- dying, expiring, moribund
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.323:
- “ Cui mē moribundam dēseris? ”
- “To whom do you forsaken me, a dying ?”
(Dido, heartbroken, fears those who may hurt or kill her, and may already be contemplating suicide; thus Aeneas’s departure will likely prove fatal to her.)
- fatal, mortal, deadly
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Descendants
References
- “moribundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “moribundus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- moribundus 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)
- moribundus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.