The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromΜορφεύς
- Latin · borrowed fromMorpheus
- English todayMorpheus
Borrowed from Latin Morpheus (possibly coined by Ovid in his Metamorphoses as the god is not mentioned in earlier works), from Ancient Greek Μορφεύς (Morpheús), from μορφή (morphḗ, “form, shape”) (alluding to the fact that Morpheus appeared in dreams in the forms of different people) + -εύς (-eús, suffix forming masculine nouns indicating persons concerned with particular things).
Words from the same roots
LatinMorpheus all →
in the arms of Morpheus
Ancient GreekΜορφεύς all →
morphinein the arms of Morpheus
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.