morbus
Pronunciation: [ˈmɔr.bʊs]
“morbus” is a Latin word. Its 4 meanings in English:
noun
Etymology
Uncertain. Pokorny, writing in the mid 20th-century, connected the term with Ancient Greek μαραίνω (maraínō), Old Irish meirb, Latin mortārium, and Old Norse merja. In more recent writings, De Vaan suggests a possible connection with Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”), whence also morior (“to die”). The root may have been extended with a morpheme *-bʰo-, which perhaps also appears in terms such…
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