Morbovia

• Morbōnia

A facetious formation: morbus (“disease”, “sickness”, “malady”) +‎ -ōvia.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [mɔrˈboː.wi.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [morˈbɔː.vi.a]

Morbōvia f sg (genitive Morbōviae); first declension

1. (vulgar, in execrations) the land of disease, sickdom
   • c. 69 CE – 122 CE, Suetonius, Vespasianus 14:

     quidam ex officio admissionis simul expellens abire Morboviam iusserat

     one of those whose office it was to introduce people to the emperor, thrusting him out, bid him go to Morbonia (i.e., go to hell)

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• Morbōviam abeō (colloquial)

• “Morbōvĭa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Morbovia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “Morbouia” on page 1,133/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)