morbo
Esperanto
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]morbo (accusative singular morbon, plural morboj, accusative plural morbojn) (rare)
Usage notes
[edit]The native synonym malsano is overwhelmingly preferred over the rare scientific loanword morbo in every context. It sometimes appears in the names of eponymous diseases such as morbo de Parkinson.
Derived terms
[edit]- morba (“morbid, pathological”)
Interlingua
[edit]Noun
[edit]morbo (plural morbos)
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]morbo m (plural morbi)
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “morbo”, in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
- “morbo”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026
Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Noun
[edit]morbō
Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin morbus, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *mer-. Doublet of mormo.
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: mor‧bo
Noun
[edit]morbo m (plural morbos)
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “morbo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “morbo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
- “morbo”, in Dicionário Infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2026
- “morbo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2026, →ISBN
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin morbus. Doublet of muermo.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]morbo m (plural morbos)
- (pathology) disease
- attraction for unwholesome things; morbid interest
- morbid interest in other people or things
- peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste; kink
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “morbo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
Categories:
- Esperanto terms derived from Latin
- Esperanto terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *mer- (die)
- Esperanto terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Esperanto 2-syllable words
- Esperanto terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Esperanto/orbo
- Rhymes:Esperanto/orbo/2 syllables
- Esperanto lemmas
- Esperanto nouns
- Esperanto rare terms
- eo:Pathology
- Esperanto formal terms
- eo:Medicine
- eo:Health
- Interlingua lemmas
- Interlingua nouns
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian 2-syllable words
- Italian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Italian/ɔrbo
- Rhymes:Italian/ɔrbo/2 syllables
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- it:Diseases
- Latin non-lemma forms
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- Portuguese terms borrowed from Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *mer- (die)
- Portuguese learned borrowings from Latin
- Portuguese doublets
- Portuguese terms derived from Latin
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- Portuguese 2-syllable words
- Portuguese terms with IPA pronunciation
- Portuguese lemmas
- Portuguese nouns
- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *mer- (die)
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish terms derived from Latin
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- Spanish learned borrowings from Latin
- Spanish doublets
- Spanish 2-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/oɾbo
- Rhymes:Spanish/oɾbo/2 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- es:Diseases
