Dictionary formmorbus, morbi(masculine)
Translation
disease, illness; sickness
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Grammar
Cases
| Case | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominativethe subject | morbus | morbi |
| Vocativecalling someone: O ... | morbe | morbi |
| Accusativethe direct object; after ad, in (into), per | morbum | morbos |
| Genitiveof | morbi | morborum |
| Dativeto, for | morbo | morbis |
| Ablativeby, with, from; after a, ab, cum, de, e, ex, in (in), sine | morbo | morbis |
Examples
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The illness was serious.
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The doctor recognised the disease.
perierunt.
Many died of disease.
ignota .
The cause of the illness is unknown.
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He wrote about the diseases of the body.
Morbus, morbi, m., second declension. The case to watch is the ablative of cause with no preposition: morbo mori, morbo perire, "to die of disease". With a preposition you would be saying something else.
It is not restricted to bodies. Cicero uses morbus animi for a settled disorder of the mind, and the Stoics treated the passions as diseases in a technical sense rather than a metaphorical one. The word is unrelated to morior despite the tidy overlap in sound and subject matter. English took morbid and morbidity, but drifted: an English morbid interest is gloomy rather than diseased, so translating morbus as "morbid state" imports a mood the Latin has not got.
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 9, lesson 6: morbus, sidus, liquamen and 7 more words.