English
morbific
Morbific may come from Middle French morbifique.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600morbifiqueuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1997morbific
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600morbifiqueuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 1997morbific
Earliest quotation: 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: “He accepted that the body was a machine, mathematically…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *mer- ‘to die’
remember, march, murder, marine, nightmare, mere, maritime, marsh, mare, mortality, mortal, mara, mortar, muller, moor, mortuary, ambrosia, marinate, mort, morn, marinara, maar, moribund, cormorant, 61 more
Today it means
adj That causes disease; sickening, pathogenic.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French morbifique / morbific