The story
- Latin · derived frommorbus“disease”
- Medieval Latin · derived frommorbillus
- English todaymorbilli
From Medieval Latin morbillus, from Latin morbus (“disease”) + -illus (“diminutive suffix”).
Words from the same roots
Medieval Latinmorbillus all →
morbilliform
Latinmorbus all →
morbusmorbificmorbillousmorbs
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.