morvu
Sicilian
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Latin morbus (“illness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔɾ.βʊ/
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔβ.βʊ/, [ˈmɔb.bʊ], [ˈmɔv.vʊ] (regressively assimilated)
- Hyphenation: mòr‧vu
Noun
morvu m (uncountable)
- snot (nose mucus)
- (medicine, zoology) glanders
- (general sense) illness
- Synonyms: malatìa, rifridduri, corpu d'aria
Derived terms
- murviḍḍu
Related terms
- frevi
- muccaturi
- stranutari
- stranutu
- tussi
- tùssiri
See also
- aricchiuni
- herpes
- irpiti
- russànija
- sèttima malatìa
- variceḍḍa
References
- Pasqualino (c. 1790) “morvu”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 3, page 193
- Traina, Antonino (1868) “morvu”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 2557
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 169: “il moccio” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it