mormo

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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μορμώ (Mormṓ, “a hideous she-monster, a bugbear”).

Pronunciation

Noun

mormo (plural mormos)

  1. (obsolete) A bugbear; false terror.
    • 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe:
      Thus the Atheists, who derive the origin of religion from fear, first put an affrighful vizard upon the Deity, and then conclude it to be but a mormo or bugbear, the creature of fear and fancy.
    • 1727, William Warburton, Critical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Causes of Miracles:
      the mormos and bugbears of a frighted rabble

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mormo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

    Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mormo, from Latin morbus.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    mormo m (plural mormos)

    1. (veterinary medicine) glanders
    2. (medicine) cold
    3. (medicine) tiredness
    4. (medicine) pus
      Synonyms: brume, pus
    5. mucus; snot
      Synonym: moco

    References

    Old Galician-Portuguese

    Etymology

      Inherited from Latin morbus.

      Noun

      mormo m (plural mormos)

      1. (veterinary medicine) glanders

      Descendants

      • Galician: mormo
      • Portuguese: mormo

      References

      • Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mormo”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG

      Portuguese

      Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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      Etymology

        Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mormo, from Latin morbus. Doublet of morbo.

        Pronunciation

         

        • Hyphenation: mor‧mo

        Noun

        mormo m (plural mormos)

        1. (veterinary medicine) glanders
          Synonym: lamparão

        References

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