mortal

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From Anglo-Norman mortal, Middle French mortal, and their source Latin mortālis, from mors (death).

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mortal (comparative more mortal, superlative most mortal)

  1. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal. [from 14th c.]
  2. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.). [from 14th c.]
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.11:
      Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist / A mortall bow and arrowes keene did hold […].

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Noun [edit]

mortal (plural mortals)

  1. A human; someone susceptible to death.

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Etymology [edit]

From Latin mortālis.

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mortal m, f (masculine and feminine plural mortals)

  1. mortal
  2. deadly, lethal

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mortal m, f (plural mortals)

  1. mortal

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mortal m and f (plural mortais; comparable and uncomparable)

  1. (not comparable) Susceptible to death; mortal.
  2. (comparable) Prone to cause death; deadly; lethal; fatal.

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mortal m and f (plural mortais)

  1. A mortal person.

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mortal m and f (plural mortales)

  1. deadly
  2. mortal

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