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morbus

/ˈmɔːbəs/US/ˈmɔɹbəs/

morbus noun: a disease.

Noun

morbus (plural morbuses or morbi)

  1. (formal) A disease.
    • I thought he were took with the Morbus one day, I did with his nasty angle!
      For “oh dear,” says he, and burst out in a cry, “oh my gut is all got of a tangle!”1838, Thomas Hood, “A Rise at the Father of Angling”, in The Comic Annual, page 47
    • Probably no small share of our cholera morbuses, diarrhœas, and dysenteries, have their origin in this source.1846, William Andrus Alcott, The Young House-keeper: Or, Thoughts on Food and Cookery, page 214

morbus meaning in Kannada

morbus in Kannada

ಕುತ್ತ, ಬೇನೆ, ರೋಗ

Forms of morbus

pluralmorbuses
pluralmorbi

Origin of morbus

Borrowed from Latin morbus.

Questions about morbus

What does morbus mean?
Morbus means a disease.
What is morbus in Kannada?
Morbus in Kannada is ಕುತ್ತ, ಬೇನೆ, ರೋಗ. See Morbus meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is morbus?
Morbus is a noun.
How do you pronounce morbus?
Morbus is pronounced /ˈmɔːbəs/ (UK).
What is the plural of morbus?
The plural of morbus is morbuses.

Words near morbus in the dictionary

  1. Morborne
  2. morbose
  3. morbosities
  4. morbosity
  5. morbs
  6. morbus
  7. morbus coxarius
  8. morbus cyclometricus
  9. morbus Dupuytren
  10. morbuses
  11. morceau

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Adapted from Wiktionary: morbus (page history and authors); morbus (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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