English
morbus
Morbus comes from Latin morbus ‘a disease, illness, malady, sickness,…’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmorbus‘a disease, illness, malady, sickness, disorder, distemper, ailment’
- Englishearliest quotation 1838same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmorbus‘a disease, illness, malady, sickness, disorder, distemper, ailment’
- Englishearliest quotation 1838same form
Earliest quotation: 1838, Thomas Hood, A Rise at the Father of Angling: “I thought he were took with the Morbus one…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *mer- ‘to die’
remember, march, murder, marine, nightmare, mere, maritime, marsh, mare, mortality, mara, mortal, muller, mortar, moor, ambrosia, mortuary, marinate, marinara, mort, morn, maar, moribund, cormorant, 60 more
through Latin morbus ‘a disease, illness, malady, sickness,…’
Today it means
noun A disease.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin morbus / morbus