English
morbid
Morbid comes from Latin morbidus ‘diseased’, and goes back to morbus ‘sickness’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmorbus‘sickness’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmorbidus‘diseased’
- Englishearliest quotation 1920morbid
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmorbus‘sickness’
- Latin, derivedc. 75 BCE–200 CEmorbidus‘diseased’
- Englishearliest quotation 1920morbid
Earliest quotation: 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles: “Enough to make a man morbid, to be stalked…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *mer- ‘to rub, pound, wear away’
remember, march, murder, marine, nightmare, mere, maritime, marsh, mare, mortality, mara, mortal, muller, mortar, moor, ambrosia, mortuary, marinate, marinara, mort, morn, maar, moribund, cormorant, 61 more
Today it means
adj Of, relating to, or afflicted by disease.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin morbus / morbid