morbific

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle French morbifique, or its source, post-classical morbificus, from Latin morbus (“sickness”).

Pronunciation

Adjective

morbific (comparative more morbific, superlative most morbific)

  1. 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.
  2. 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)

  1. morbific

Declension

Declension of morbific
singular plural
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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