morbific
English
Alternative forms
- morbifick (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle French morbifique, or its source, post-classical morbificus, from Latin morbus (“sickness”).
Adjective
morbific (comparative more morbific, superlative most morbific)
- That causes disease; sickening, pathogenic. [from 17th c.]
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 240:
- He accepted that the body was a machine, mathematically understandable, but disease was the effort by nature or the soul to expel morbific matter, and physiology was the science of that struggle.
- Pertaining to or caused by disease; diseased. [from 17th c.]
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French morbifique.
Adjective
morbific m or n (feminine singular morbifică, masculine plural morbifici, feminine and neuter plural morbifice)
Declension
Declension of morbific
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative | indefinite | morbific | morbifică | morbifici | morbifice | ||
definite | morbificul | morbifica | morbificii | morbificele | |||
genitive/ dative | indefinite | morbific | morbifice | morbifici | morbifice | ||
definite | morbificului | morbificei | morbificilor | morbificelor |
References
- morbific in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN
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