mormo

See also: Mormo

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Μορμώ (Mormṓ, “a hideous she-monster, a bugbear”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔː(ɹ)məʊ/

Noun

mormo (plural mormos)

  1. (obsolete) A bugbear; false terror.
    • 1678, Ralph Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe:
      Thus the Atheists, who derive the origin of religion from fear, first put an affrighful vizard upon the Deity, and then conclude it to be but a mormo or bugbear, the creature of fear and fancy.
    • 1727, William Warburton, Critical and Philosophical Enquiry into the Causes of Miracles:
      the mormos and bugbears of a frighted rabble

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “mormo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Galician

Alternative forms

Etymology

  • Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mormo, from Latin morbus, from Proto-Indo-European *mer- + *bʰeh₂-.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈmɔɾmo/ [ˈmɔɾ.mʊ]
    • Rhymes: -ɔɾmo

    Noun

    mormo m (plural mormos)

    1. (veterinary medicine) glanders
    2. (medicine) cold
    3. (medicine) tiredness
    4. (medicine) pus
      Synonyms: brume, pus
    5. mucus; snot
      Synonym: moco
    • amormar
    • mormaceira
    • mormeira
    • mormoeira
    • mormoso

    References

    Old Galician-Portuguese

    Etymology

  • Inherited from Latin morbus, from Proto-Indo-European *mer- + *bʰeh₂-.

    Noun

    mormo m (plural mormos)

    1. (veterinary medicine) glanders
      • 1420, chapter IIII, in Álvaro Eans das Eiras, transl., Tratado de Albeitaria, translation of De Medicina Equorum by Giordano Ruffo, page 4:
        Remedio contra a friura da Cabeça que dizen mormo.
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    Descendants

    • Galician: mormo
    • Portuguese: mormo

    References

    • Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “mormo”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

    Portuguese

    Etymology

  • Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese mormo, from Latin morbus, from Proto-Indo-European *mer- + *bʰeh₂-. Doublet of morbo.

    Pronunciation

     
    • (Brazil) IPA(key): /ˈmoʁ.mu/ [ˈmoɦ.mu]

    • Hyphenation: mor‧mo

    Noun

    mormo m (plural mormos)

    1. (veterinary medicine) glanders
      Synonym: lamparão
    • mormoso

    References

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