mortifero
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See also: mortífero
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin mortifer, mortiferus, derived from mors (“death”) + -fer (“-bearing, -carrying”), originally a calque of Ancient Greek θᾰνᾰτηφόρος (thanatēphóros, “deadly, lethal”, literally “death-bearing”). By surface analysis, morte + -ifero.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]mortifero (feminine mortifera, masculine plural mortiferi, feminine plural mortifere) (literary)
- deadly, lethal, deathly, mortiferous
- 2009, Daniele Luttazzi, “Pesci selvatici e le melodie delle foreste andaluse [Wild fish, and the melodies of Andalusian forests]”, in La guerra civile fredda [Cold Civil War], 2nd edition (paperback), Feltrinelli, →ISBN, page 207:
- la satira è contro il potere, di cui riesce ad annullare la natura mortifera mantenendo viva nel nostro immaginario quella sana oscillazione fra sacro e profano che chiamiamo dubbio
- Satire is against Power, whose deathly nature it is able to cancel, keeping alive, in our imagination, that healthy oscillation between sacred and profane which we call doubt
- (rare) foreboding death
- (rare) mortal
Derived terms
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- mortifero in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
- mortifero in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- mortìfero in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
- mortìfero in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
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[edit]Latin
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /morˈti.fe.roː/, [mɔrˈt̪ɪfɛroː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /morˈti.fe.ro/, [morˈt̪iːfero]
Adjective
[edit]mortiferō
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