immortal

English

Etymology

From Latin immortālis, from prefix im- (“not”), from in-, + mortālis (“mortal”), from mors (“death”) (combining form mort-), + adjectival suffix -alis.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)təl

Adjective

immortal (not comparable)

1. Not susceptible to death; living forever; never dying.
2. Never to be forgotten; that merits being always remembered.

   his immortal words

Synonyms

• undeadly

Antonyms

• mortal

Derived terms

• immortality

Translations

not susceptible to death

• Armenian: անմահ (hy) (anmah)
• Asturian: inmortal (ast)
• Catalan: immortal (ca)
• Chinese: 不朽的 (bù xiǔ de)
• Czech: nesmrtelný (cs) m
• Danish: udødelig (da)
• Dutch: onsterfelijk (nl)
• Esperanto: senmorta (eo)
• Estonian: surematu (et)
• Finnish: kuolematon (fi)
• French: immortel (fr)
• Galician: inmortal (gl)
• German: unsterblich (de)
• Greek: αθάνατος (el) (athánatos)
• Hindi: अमर (hi) (amar)
• Hungarian: halhatatlan (hu)
• Icelandic: ódauðlegur (is)

• Irish: neamhbhásmhar (ga)
• Italian: immortale (it)
• Japanese: 不滅の (ふめつの, fumetsu no)
• Korean: 불사하는 (ko) (bulsahaneun)
• Kurdish: nemir (ku), hersax (ku), herheyî (ku)

  Sorani: نه‌مر (ku)

• Latin: immortalis (la) m, aeternus (la) m
• Occitan: immortal (oc)
• Polish: nieśmiertelny (pl) m
• Portuguese: imortal (pt)
• Russian: бессмертный (ru) (bessmértnyj) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бѐсмртан (sh)

  Roman: bèsmrtan (sh)

• Spanish: inmortal (es)
• Swedish: odödlig (sv)
• Turkish: ölümsüz (tr)

Noun

immortal (plural immortals)

1. One who is not susceptible to death.
2. A member of an elite regiment of the Persian army.
3. A member of the Académie française.
4. (Internet) An administrator of a multi-user dungeon; a wizard.
   • 1999, "Corey Crawford", RECRUITING: [circle] Tazmania/Middle Sphere: Admin, Builders, Immortals (on newsgroup rec.games.mud.announce)

     Tazmania/Middle Sphere is in need of builders, admin, and immortals. […] Immortals do not need experiance^[sic].

Translations

one that is not susceptible to death

• Esperanto: senmortulo (eo)
• Finnish: kuolematon (fi)
• Greek: αθάνατος (el) (athánatos) m
• Hungarian: halhatatlan (hu)
• Italian: immortale (it)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: نه‌مر (ku)

• Latin: aeternus (la) m, immortalis (la) m and f

• Persian: جاویدان (fa)
• Russian: бессмертный (ru) (bessmértnyj)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: бесмртник (sh) m, besmrtnica (sh) f

  Roman: besmrtnik (sh) m, бесмртница (sh) f

• Spanish: inmortal (es) m and f
• Swahili: asiyekufa (sw)
• Turkish: ölümsüz (tr)

External links

• Persian Immortals on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Persian Immortals
• Académie française on Wikipedia.Wikipedia:Académie française

Related terms

• mortal
• mortality
• mortician

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin immortālis

Adjective

immortal m, f (masculine and feminine plural immortals)

1. immortal

Antonyms

• mortal

Related terms

• immortalitat