morbus

Borrowed from Latin morbus

morbus

1. (medicine, formal) disease

• Borums

From Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to die”), the same root of mori (“to die”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.bus/, [ˈmɔr.bʊs]

morbus m (genitive morbī); second declension

1. (of the body or mind) A disease, sickness, disorder, distemper, ailment, illness, malady.
2. (of the mind) A fault, vice, failing.
3. (of the mind) Sorrow, grief, distress.
4. death (prima morbi accessione, at the first approach of death)

Second declension.

• morbidē
• morbōsitās

• morbus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• morbus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• morbus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• morbus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • he fell ill: in morbum incidit
    
  • to be attacked by disease: morbo tentari or corripi
    
  • to be laid on a bed of sickness: morbo afflīgi
    
  • to be seriously ill: gravi morbo affectum esse, conflictari, vexari
    
  • the disease gets worse: morbus ingravescit
    
  • to be carried off by a disease: morbo absūmi (Sall. Iug. 5. 6)
    
  • to recover from a disease: ex morbo convalescere (not reconvalescere)
    
  • to recruit oneself after a severe illness: e gravi morbo recreari or se colligere
    
  • to excuse oneself on the score of health: valetudinem (morbum) excusare (Liv. 6. 22. 7)
    
  • to die a natural death: morbo perire, absūmi, consūmi
    
  • to pretend to be ill: simulare morbum
    
  • to pretend not to be ill: dissimulare morbum
    
  • to plead ill-health as an excuse for absence: excusare morbum, valetudinem