mort

See also Mort

English

Etymology 1

French mort (“death”).

Noun

mort (plural morts)

1. A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
   • Sir Walter Scott

     The sportsman then sounded a treble mort.

2. (UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.

Derived terms

• mort cloth
• mort stone

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

mort

1. A great quantity or number.

Etymology 3

Shortening of mortal.

Noun

mort (plural morts)

1. (Internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.

Antonyms

• immort

Etymology 4

Uncertain.

Noun

mort (plural morts)

1. A three-year-old salmon.

Etymology 5

Unknown

Noun

mort (plural morts)

1. (slang, archaic) A woman; a female.
   • Ben Jonson

     Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.

Anagrams

• mTOR

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Albanian

Etymology

From Latin mors, mortem.

Noun

mort m

1. death

See also

• vdekje

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Catalan

Etymology 1

From Latin mors, mortis.

Noun

mort f (uncountable)

1. death

mort m (plural morts)

1. dead person
2. (colloquial) a difficult problem one must face

Etymology 2

From Latin mortuus.

Adjective

mort m (feminine morta, masculine plural morts, feminine plural mortes)

1. dead

Verb

mort

1. Past participle of morir.

   45.000 persones han mort

   45000 people have died

Related terms

• morir

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔrt

Verb

mort

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of morren
2. plural imperative of morren

Anagrams

• trom

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French

Pronunciation

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• IPA: /mɔʁ/, X-SAMPA: /mOR/

Etymology 1

From Old French mort, from Latin mortuus, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥twós, *mr̥tós.

Verb

mort m (feminine morte, masculine plural morts, feminine plural mortes)

1. Past participle of mourir

Adjective

mort m (feminine morte, masculine plural morts, feminine plural mortes)

1. dead

   Le roi est mort.

   The king is dead.

Synonyms

• défunt

Etymology 2

From Latin mors, mortem.

Noun

mort f (plural morts)

1. death

Noun

mort m (plural morts; feminine morte, plural mortes)

1. dead person

Synonyms

• (dead person): défunt

Related terms

• mourir
• morte
• mourant

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Jèrriais

Etymology 1

From Old French mort, from Latin mortuus.

Adjective

mort m (feminine morte, masculine plural morts, feminine plural mortes)

1. dead
   • Lé rouai est mort, lé rouai vit!

     The king is dead, long live the king!

Synonyms

• souos la bliête (“six feet under”)
• souos les mèrgots (“dead and buried”)

Derived terms

• La Mé Morte (“The Dead Sea”)
• morte-ieau (“neap-tide”)
• mort-né (“stillborn”)

Etymology 2

From Latin mors, mortem.

Noun

mort f (plural morts)

1. death

Synonyms

• décès

Derived terms

• au pas d'la mort, au nom d'mort (“at death's door”)

Related terms

• mortalité (“mortality”)

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Middle French

Etymology

From Old French mort < Latin mors, mortem.

Noun

mort f (plural mors)

1. death

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Occitan

Alternative forms

• mòrt

Etymology

From Latin mors, mortem.

Noun

mort f (plural morts)

1. death

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin mortuus.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /mɔrt/
• Rhymes: -ɔrt

Verb

mort

1. Past participle of morir

Adjective

mort m

1. dead
   • circa 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland:

     Or veit Rollant que mort est sun ami

     Now Roland can see that death is his friend

Declension

  Declension of mort  

Number	Case	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Singular	Subject	morz	morte	mort
	Oblique	mort	morte	mort
Plural	Subject	mort	mortes	mort
	Oblique	morz	mortes	mort

Noun

mort f (oblique plural morz, nominative singular mort, nominative plural morz)

1. death

Descendants

• French: mort

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Romanian

Etymology

From Late Latin mortus, from Latin mortuus, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥twós, *mr̥tós.

Pronunciation

• IPA: [mort]

Adjective

mort ^{4 nom/acc forms}

1. dead

Declension

declension of mort

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	mort		moartă	morți	moarte
	definite	mortul		moarta	morții	moartele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	mort		moarte	morți	moarte
	definite	mortului		moartei	morților	moartelor

Antonyms

• viu

Related terms

• muri
• moarte

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Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) miert

Etymology

From Latin mortuus.

Adjective

mort m f morta, m plural morts, f plural mortas)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) dead

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

mort m (genitive and plural moirt)

1. Alternative form of murt.

Verb

mort (verbal noun mort or mortadh)

1. Alternative form of murt.