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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortarium.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɔːtə(ɹ)/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Noun[edit]
mortar (countable and uncountable, plural mortars)
- (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
- 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Fire Worship”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:
- The holy hearth! If any earthly and material thing, or rather a divine idea embodied in brick and mortar, might be supposed to possess the permanence of moral truth, it was this.
- (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
- Synonyms: mortar and pestle, pestle and mortar
- (countable, military, historical) A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
- (countable, military) A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories. [from 20th c.]
- (countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.
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Descendants[edit]
- → Indonesian: mortar
Translations[edit]
mixture of lime or cement, sand and water
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short, heavy, large-bore cannon
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lightweight indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate
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vessel used to grind ingredients
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Verb[edit]
mortar (third-person singular simple present mortars, present participle mortaring, simple past and past participle mortared)
- (transitive) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
- (transitive) To pound in a mortar.
- To fire a mortar (weapon).
- To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).
- The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.
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Verb[edit]
mortar (present mortas, past mortis, future mortos, conditional mortus, imperative mortez)
- (intransitive, literally and figuratively) to die, cease to live, depart this life
- (intransitive) to go out (of fire, lights, etc.)
- (intransitive) to come to an end (of movement)
Conjugation[edit]
Conjugation of mortar
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present | past | future | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | mortar | mortir | mortor | ||||
| tense | mortas | mortis | mortos | ||||
| conditional | mortus | ||||||
| imperative | mortez | ||||||
| adjective active participle | mortanta | mortinta | mortonta | ||||
| adverbial active participle | mortante | mortinte | mortonte | ||||
| nominal active participle | singular | mortanto | mortinto | mortonto | |||
| plural | mortanti | mortinti | mortonti | ||||
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From English mortar, from Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortir.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mortar (first-person possessive mortarku, second-person possessive mortarmu, third-person possessive mortarnya)
- mortar,
- a mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
- a hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
- Synonym: lumpang
Further reading[edit]
- “mortar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Middle English[edit]
Noun[edit]
mortar
- Alternative form of morter
Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]
Noun[edit]
mortar m
- indefinite plural of mort
Romanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin mortārium (19th century).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
mortar n (uncountable)
- mortar (construction material)
Declension[edit]
declension of mortar (singular only)
| singular | ||
|---|---|---|
| n gender | indefinite articulation | definite articulation |
| nominative/accusative | (un) mortar | mortarul |
| genitive/dative | (unui) mortar | mortarului |
| vocative | mortarule | |
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Further reading[edit]
- mortar in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)
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