morto

See also: môrto

English

Etymology

Clipping of mortified +‎ -o

Pronunciation

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Adjective

morto (comparative more morto, superlative most morto)

1. (Ireland, slang) Very embarrassed or embarrassing.
   • 2007 March 21, Kilian Doyle, "An iconic parade" The Irish Times (Dublin) Motoring p.3

     I was, to use the vernacular, bleedin' morto. My shame notwithstanding, the whole day was a blast.

   • 2013 February 21, Louise McSharry, "Robbie Williams’ most morto moments of all time" Daily Edge:

     Robbie’s had some pretty embarrassing moments over the years. What better time than now to take a stroll down memory lane? Here are his most morto moments.

   • 2013 May 20 "Early trouble" The Irish Times (Dublin) Sport p.2

     Yes, Dan left the game early because he "wanted to miss the traffic and get a kebab on the way home" - after which Coventry scored twice. Morto.

Anagrams

• motor

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Esperanto

Etymology

From French mort, Italian morte, Spanish muerte, Portuguese morte, Romanian moarte, from Latin mors, mortis. All derived from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥-to-. Similar forms also exist in other Indo-European languages, such as Lithuanian mirtis, Russian смерть (smertʹ), Persian مرگ (marg) and Hindi मृत्यु (mŕtyu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmorto]

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• Rhymes: -orto
• Hyphenation: mor‧to

Noun

morto (accusative singular morton, plural mortoj, accusative plural mortojn)

1. death

   Antonym: vivo

Derived terms

• mortpuno (“death penalty”)

Related terms

• antaŭmorta (“ante-mortem”)
• morta (“dead”)
• morti (“to die”)
• mortigi (“to kill”)
• mortinto (“dead man”)
• postmorta (“posthumous; post-mortem”)

 

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Galician

A os mortos na Guerra Civil - To the Civil War dead

Etymology

From Old Galician and Old Galician-Portuguese morto, from Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuum, perfect active participle of morior (“I die”). Corresponds to Proto-Indo-European *mr̥twós, *mr̥tós (“dead, mortal”), *mr̥tó-, ultimately from *mer- (“to die”). Cognate with Portuguese morto and Spanish muerto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɔɾtʊ], (western) [ˈmoɾtʊ]

Adjective

morto (feminine morta, masculine plural mortos, feminine plural mortas)

1. dead; deceased

   Synonym: defunto

2. (figurative) extenuated

Noun

morto m (plural mortos)

1. corpse
2. dead person

   Synonym: defunto

3. (nautical) kind of anchor

Verb

1. irregular masculine singular past participle of morrer

Related terms

• morte

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “morto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “morto”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “morto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “morto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “morto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

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Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto morto, English mortal, French mort, German Mortalität, Italian morte, Spanish muerte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔr.to/

Noun

morto (plural morti)

1. death, decease

Derived terms

• depozeyo di mortinti (“morgue”)
• elektro-mortigar (“to electrocute”)
• esar balde mortonta (“to be at the point of death, at death’s door”)
• esar mortonta (“to be at the point of death, at death’s door”)
• expozeyo di mortinti (“morgue”)
• mortado (“mortality”)
• mortala (“death, mortal”)
• mortale vundita (“mortally wounded”)
• mortanto (“dying person, moribund person”)
• mortar naturale (“to die a natural death”)
• mortar ye la mondumo (“to be dead to the world”)
• mortar (“to die, cease to live, cease to be, depart this life; to go out; to come to an end”)
• mortemeso (“mortality”)
• morteskar (“to be dying, be on the point of death”)
• mortigala paleso (“deathly pallor”)
• mortiganta (“mortal, deadly: which causes death”)
• mortigar nemortiva (“to immortalize”)
• mortigar per elektro-shoko (“to electrocute”)
• mortigar (“to deprive of life; cause to die, kill, execute, put to death”)
• mortigisto (“executioner”)
• mortigiva (“mortal, deadly: which causes death”)
• mortigive paleso (“deathly pallor”)
• mortigo (“killing, execution”)
• mortinta (“dead, defunct”)
• mortintala domo (“mortuary”)
• mortiva (“mortal: subject to death”)
• mortiveso (“immortality”)
• mortiveso (“liability to death”)
• morto-puniso (“death penalty, capital punishment”)
• morto-punto (“point of death”)
• morto-statistiko (“mortality”)
• mortonto (“dying person, moribund person”)
• naske mortinta (“born dead stillborn”)
• nemortiva (“everlasting, immortal, undying”)
• nemortivo (“everlasting, immortal, undying”)
• senmortoza (“undying”)
• stone mortinta (“stone dead”)
• stono-mortigar (“to stone”)

 

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Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *mortus, from Classical Latin mortuus, from Proto-Italic *mortwos, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥twós, derived from the root *mer- (“to die; to disappear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔr.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔrto
• Hyphenation: mòr‧to

Adjective

morto (feminine morta, masculine plural morti, feminine plural morte)

1. (literal and figurative) dead

   Synonyms: (colloquial) crepato, deceduto, defunto, estinto, perito, (euphemistic) scomparso

   Antonyms: vivente, vivo

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell], 12th edition (paperback), Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto V, pages 83–84, lines 139–142:

     Mentre che l’uno spirto questo disse, ¶ l’altro piangëa; sì che di pietade ¶ io venni men così com’ io morisse. ¶ E caddi come corpo morto cade.

     And all the while one spirit uttered this, the other one did weep so, that, for pity, I swooned away as if I had been dying, and fell, even as a dead body falls.

   • 1807, Ugo Foscolo, Dei Sepolcri‎^[1], Molini, Landi e comp., published 1809, page 12:

     le madri ¶ Balzan ne’ sonni esterrefatte, e tendono ¶ Nude le braccia su l’amato capo ¶ Del caro lor lattante onde nol desti, ¶ Il gemer lungo di persona morta ¶ Chiedente la venal prece agli eredi ¶ Del santuario

     Mothers are shaken in their sleeps, shocked, and stretch their bare arms on their cherished baby’s beloved head, so that he's not awoken by the long wailing of a dead person asking the shrine’s heirs for the venal prayer

2. (by extension, colloquial, of a body part) dead (experiencing pins and needles)
3. (figurative, of a time period) past

   Synonyms: passato, trascorso

Derived terms

• mezzo morto
• mortamente
• morto di fame

Noun

morto m (plural morti, feminine morta)

1. dead man

   Synonym: defunto

2. corpse, dead body

   Synonyms: cadavere, corpo

3. (figurative) an inactive or idle person
4. (card games) a fourth, absent player
   1. (bridge) dummy

Participle

morto (feminine morta, masculine plural morti, feminine plural morte)

1. past participle of morire; died

Related terms

• morte
• morire

References

• morto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Portuguese

Alternative forms

• môrto (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese morto, from Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuum, perfect active participle of morior (“I die”). Corresponds to Proto-Indo-European *mr̥twós, *mr̥tós (“dead, mortal”), *mr̥tó-, ultimately from *mer- (“to die”).

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʁ.tu/ [ˈmoh.tu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʁ.tu/ [ˈmoh.tu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾ.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʁ.tu/ [ˈmoχ.tu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɻ.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾ.tu/

• Hyphenation: mor‧to

Adjective

morto (feminine morta, masculine plural mortos, feminine plural mortas, sometimes comparable)

2. dead (no longer living)

   Synonym: falecido

   Antonym: vivo

4. dead (completely inactive)
6. (informal) exhausted (extremely tired)

   Synonyms: moído, exausto, exaurido

8. (figurative) dead (not showing emotion)

   Synonyms: frio, gélido

Usage notes

Used with estar instead of ser.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:morto.

Derived terms

• amortecer
• cerebralmente morto
• espaço morto
• Mar Morto
• morto de
• morto de fome
• morto e enterrado
• natureza morta
• nem morto
• noite morta
• peso morto
• ponto morto
• rei morto, rei posto

 

Related terms

• morrer
• mortal
• mortandade
• morte
• mortificar

 

Noun

morto m (plural mortos, feminine morta, feminine plural mortas, metaphonic)

2. deceased

   Synonyms: defunto, finado

   Antonym: vivo

4. corpse (the body of a dead person)

   Synonyms: corpo, cadáver, defunto

6. (card games) a number of cards set apart that can be picked up by the first player to play all his cards

Derived terms

• Dia dos Mortos
• morto-vivo

Participle

morto (feminine morta, masculine plural mortos, feminine plural mortas)

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