morbus
Latin
noun
Definitions
- (of the body or mind) a disease, illness, malady, sickness, disorder, distemper, ailment
- (of the mind) a fault, vice, failing
- (of the mind) Sorrow, grief, distress
- death (prima morbi accessione, at the first approach of death)
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (die, rub, wear away, sea, gleam, sparkle, pound, glimmer, weave, pack, bind, plait, girl, young boy).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mer-
Gloss
die, rub, wear away, sea, gleam, sparkle, pound, glimmer, weave, pack, bind, plait, girl, young boy
Concept
Semantic Field
Time
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
海
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ambrosia English
- antemortem English
- daymare English
- immortally English
- morbid English
- morbidity English
- morbidly English
- morbidness English
- morbus English
- mortality English
- mortgage English
- mortify English
- mortmain English
- mortuary English
- murderous English
- murrain English
- perimortem English
- postmortem English
- premortem English
- Morbonia Latin
- Morbovia Latin
- gallicus Latin
- immortālis Latin
- immortālitās Latin
- merus Latin
- morbidus Latin
- morbifer Latin
- morbifico Latin
- morbus gallicus Latin
- moribundus Latin
- morior Latin
- morior, morī Latin
- mortālis Latin
- morī Latin
- post Latin
- rememorari Latin
- vomica Latin
- morbido Italian
- morbo Italian
- morbide French
- mort French
- morve French
- morveux French
- morbo Spanish, Castilian
- mórbido Spanish, Castilian
- μάρμαρος Ancient Greek
- μαρμαίρω Ancient Greek
- μαρτιχόρας Ancient Greek
- *(s)mer- Proto-Indo-European
- *mer- Proto-Indo-European
- *mer-, *mr̥- Proto-Indo-European
- *mor- Proto-Indo-European
- *mrtro- Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥tro- Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥twós Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥tós Proto-Indo-European
- *mr̥wós Proto-Indo-European
- mórbido Portuguese
- *maimrōną Proto-Germanic
- *mairōną Proto-Germanic
- *mari Proto-Germanic
- *marǭ Proto-Germanic
- *murþą Proto-Germanic
- *mīmrōną Proto-Germanic
- *nihtmare Old English
- मरते Sanskrit
- मारयति Sanskrit
- मृ Sanskrit
- मृत Sanskrit
- mortally Middle English
- morðari Old Norse
- *merti Proto-Slavic
- *morъ Proto-Slavic
- *sъmьrtь Proto-Slavic
- *umerti Proto-Slavic
- *umerti, *merti Proto-Slavic
- *umirati Proto-Slavic
- mor Czech
- morbilo Esperanto
- brume Galician
- mormo Galician
- مرده Persian
- մարի Old Armenian
- мрша Macedonian
- *mr̥tyúš Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *márti Proto-Indo-Iranian
- *mártyas Proto-Indo-Iranian
- umrieť Slovak
- vorm Occitan
- *morjōr Proto-Italic
- YMYTWNtn' Middle Persian
- 𑀫𑀸𑀭𑁂𑀇 Maharastri Prakrit
- *merusa Proto-Albanian
- mirin Kurdish