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Sicilian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin morbus (“illness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔɾ.βʊ/
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔβ.βʊ/, , (regressively assimilated)
- Hyphenation: mòr‧vu
Noun
morvu m (uncountable)
- snot (nose mucus)
- Synonyms: brugghiu, muccu, mòcculu, mòccaru
- (medicine, zoology) glanders
- (general sense) illness
- Synonyms: malatìa, rifridduri, corpu d'aria
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References
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “morvu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 3, page 193
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “morvu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2557
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz – map 169: “il moccio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it