English
muermo
Muermo comes from Spanish muermo ‘glanders’, and goes back to Latin morbus ‘a disease, illness, malady, sickness,…’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmorbus‘a disease, illness, malady, sickness, disorder, distemper, ailment’
- Spanishc. 1500–presentmuermo‘glanders’
- Englishtodaysame form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmorbus‘a disease, illness, malady, sickness, disorder, distemper, ailment’
- Spanishc. 1500–presentmuermo‘glanders’
- Englishtodaysame form
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *mer- ‘to die’
march, remember, marine, murder, nightmare, maritime, marsh, mere, mortality, mortal, mare, mortar, mara, moor, mortuary, muller, mort, morn, ambrosia, marinate, marinara, maar, moribund, cormorant, 60 more
through Latin morbus ‘a disease, illness, malady, sickness,…’
Today it means
noun Eucryphia cordifolia, a South American tree.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin morbus / muermo