morbo

From Latin morbus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmorbo/
• Rhymes: -orbo
• Hyphenation: mor‧bo

morbo (accusative singular morbon, plural morboj, accusative plural morbojn)

1. (rare, pathology, formal, medicine) disease

   Synonym: malsano

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.

• morba (“morbid, pathological”)

morbo (plural morbos)

1. disease

From Latin morbus.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔr.bo/
• Rhymes: -ɔrbo
• Hyphenation: mòr‧bo

morbo m (plural morbi)

1. (pathology) disease

   Synonym: malattia

• morbo in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• morbo in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• bromo, ombro, ombrò, rombo, rombò

morbō

1. dative/ablative singular of morbus

Learned borrowing from Latin morbus. Doublet of mormo.

• Hyphenation: mor‧bo

morbo m (plural morbos)

1. illness, disease

   Synonym: doença

• “morbo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “morbo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “morbo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “morbo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

Borrowed from Latin morbus. Doublet of muermo.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾbo/ [ˈmoɾ.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -oɾbo
• Syllabification: mor‧bo

morbo m (plural morbos)

1. (pathology) disease
2. attraction for unwholesome things; morbid interest
3. morbid interest in other people or things
4. peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste; kink

• “morbo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024