morbus.
sickness, illness, weakness; disease; distemper; distress; vice;
Meaning & usage
a disease, illness, malady, sickness, disorder, distemper, ailment
a fault, vice, failing
sorrow, grief, distress
death
Where this word comes from
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 as sorbum or albus, all of which are adjectives relating to appearance. However, De Vaan notes that Proto-Indo-European formation of the shape *mor-bʰo- is unusual. De Vaan suggests a possible relation to Welsh merwydden and Ancient Greek μόρον (móron), both of which derive from a non-Indo-European substrate.
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