The story
- Latin · derived frommorbus“disease”
- Latin · derived frommorbilli“measles”
- English todaymorbillous
Latin morbilli (“measles”), diminutive of Latin morbus (“disease”) + -ous: compare French morbilleux.
Words from the same roots
Latinmorbus all →
morbusmorbificmorbillimorbs
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.