Noun: morve
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | morve |
| Plural f | morves |
Sample Sentences
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On va protéger notre quartier, Gaby, a répondu Armand en essuyant la morve avec le revers de sa main. (We're going to protect our 'hood, Gaby, replied Armand, wiping away the snot with the back of his hand.) [2016, Gaël Faye, Petit Pays [Small Country]:]
Nouns inflected like morve
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Unknown. Possibly from a metathesis of Occitan vorm, vorma (cf. also Catalan borm), akin to French gourme, itself from Frankish *wurm; cf. English worm. Alternatively, derived from Latin morbus. See: Catalan Nouns '
borm', French Nouns '
gourme', English Nouns '
worm', Latin Nouns '
morbus'.
Verbs referencing "morve"
Romanian Nouns
morvă.
Translations