morbo
Esperanto
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmorbo]
- Rhymes: -orbo
- Hyphenation: mor‧bo
Noun
morbo (accusative singular morbon, plural morboj, accusative plural morbojn)
Usage notes
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.
Derived terms
- morba (“morbid, pathological”)
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔr.bo/
- Rhymes: -ɔrbo
- Hyphenation: mòr‧bo
Further reading
Latin
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌmoʁˈbo/ [ˌmoɦˈbo]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /ˌmoɾˈbo/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /ˌmoʁˈbo/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA(key): /ˌmoɻˈbo/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /ˌmoɾˈbo/ [ˌmoɾˈβo]
- Hyphenation: mor‧bo
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmoɾbo/ [ˈmoɾ.β̞o]
- Rhymes: -oɾbo
- Syllabification: mor‧bo
Noun
morbo m (plural morbos)
- (pathology) disease
- morbid interest in other people or things
- attraction for unwholesome things; morbid interest
- (Argentina) peculiarity or deviation in sexual behaviour or taste; kink
Related terms
Further reading
- “morbo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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