mort

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See also: Mort, mórt, mòrt, môrt, and mört

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (UK) IPA(key): /mɔːt/
  • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • (US) IPA(key): /mɔɹt/
  • Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English mort, from Old French mort (“death”).

Noun[edit]

mort (countable and uncountable, plural morts)

  1. Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
  2. A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
  3. (UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
  4. (card games) A variety of dummy whist for three players.
  5. (card games) The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
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Etymology 2[edit]

Compare Icelandic margt, neuter of margr (“many”).

Noun[edit]

mort

  1. A great quantity or number.

Etymology 3[edit]

Clipping of mortal.

Noun[edit]

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[edit]

Etymology 4[edit]

Uncertain.

Noun[edit]

mort (plural morts)

  1. A three-year-old salmon.

Etymology 5[edit]

UK circa 1560–1890.[en 1] Unknown. Documented possibilities include:

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Noun[edit]

mort (plural morts)

  1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A woman; a female.
    • 1621, Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed:
      Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.
    • 1611, Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girl, Edward Lumley, published 1840, page 538:
      I have, by the salomon, a doxy that carries a kinchin mort in her slate at her back, besides my dell and my dainty wild dell, with all whom I'll tumble this next darkmans in the strommel […]
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Derived terms[edit]
Terms derived from mort

References[edit]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang. Routledge, 1973. →ISBN.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Green, Jonathon (2012) Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime, Random House, →ISBN, page 176
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “mort”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volumes II (L–Z), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC.

Anagrams[edit]

Albanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mors, mortem.

Noun[edit]

mort m

  1. death

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Aromanian[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mortuus. Compare Romanian mort.

Adjective[edit]

mort (feminine morte, masculine plural morts, feminine plural morti)

  1. dead

Derived terms[edit]

Bourguignon[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Latin mortuus.

Adjective[edit]

mort (feminine mote, masculine plural morts, feminine plural motes)

  1. dead

Etymology 2[edit]

From Latin mors.

Noun[edit]

mort f (plural morts)

  1. death

Catalan[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Old Catalan mort, from Latin mortem.

Noun[edit]

mort f (uncountable)

  1. death

Noun[edit]

mort m (plural morts)

  1. (colloquial) a difficult problem one must face
  2. (nautical) mooring block

Etymology 2[edit]

Inherited from Old Catalan mort, from Latin mortuus.

Adjective[edit]

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

  1. dead

Noun[edit]

mort m (plural morts)

  1. dead person

Participle[edit]

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

  1. past participle of morir
    45.000 persones han mort
    45000 people have died

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Further reading[edit]

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

mort

  1. inflection of morren:
    1. second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. (archaic) plural imperative

Anagrams[edit]

French[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French mort, from Vulgar Latin *mortu, from Latin mortuus.

Participle[edit]

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

  1. past participle of mourir

Adjective[edit]

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

  1. dead
    Le roi est mort.
    The king is dead.
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Noun[edit]

mort m (plural morts, feminine morte)

  1. dead person
    Synonym: défunt
Derived terms[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

Inherited from Middle French mort, from Old French mort, from Latin mors.

Noun[edit]

mort f (plural morts)

  1. death
Derived terms[edit]
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Descendants[edit]
  • → English: mort

Further reading[edit]

Ladin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mors, mortem.

Noun[edit]

mort f (plural mortes)

  1. death

Middle French[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old French mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

Noun[edit]

mort m or f (plural mors)

  1. death

Descendants[edit]

Norman[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old French mort, from Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuus.

Adjective[edit]

mort m

  1. (Jersey) dead
    Lé rouai est mort, lé rouai vit!
    The king is dead, long live the king!
Synonyms[edit]
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Old French mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

Noun[edit]

mort f (plural morts)

  1. (Jersey) death
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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse murtr, murti.

Noun[edit]

mort m (definite singular morten, indefinite plural morter, definite plural mortene)

  1. the common roach, Rutilus rutilus

References[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse murtr, murti.

Noun[edit]

mort m (definite singular morten, indefinite plural mortar, definite plural mortane)

  1. the common roach, Rutilus rutilus

References[edit]

Occitan[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Occitan mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • Audio (Gascon)(file)

Noun[edit]

mort f (plural morts)

  1. death

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Old French[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

mort

  1. past participle of morir

Adjective[edit]

mort m (oblique and nominative feminine singular morte)

  2. dead
    • c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland:
      Or veit Rollant que mort est sun ami
      Now Roland can see that his friend is dead
Declension[edit]
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

Descendants[edit]

Etymology 2[edit]

From Latin mors, mortem. First attested in Old French in 881 in the Sequence of Saint Eulalia.

Noun[edit]

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

  2. death
    • c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 104, line 1027:
      car sun chant signefie mort
      for his song signifies death
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Descendants[edit]

Picard[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin mors.

Noun[edit]

mort f (plural morts)

  1. death

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Romanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuus.

Pronunciation[edit]

Adjective[edit]

mort m or n (feminine singular moartă, masculine plural morți, feminine and neuter plural moarte)

  1. dead
    Antonym: viu
    oamenii morți ― the dead people

Declension[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

mort m (plural morți, feminine equivalent moartă)

  1. dead body, corpse

Declension[edit]

Declension of mort
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) mort mortul (niște) morți morții
genitive/dative (unui) mort mortului (unor) morți morților
vocative mortule morților

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Romansch[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuus.

Adjective[edit]

mort m (feminine singular morta, masculine plural morts, feminine plural mortas)

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

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Scottish Gaelic[edit]

Noun[edit]

mort m (genitive singular moirt, plural moirt)

  1. Alternative form of murt

Verb[edit]

mort (past mhort, future mortaidh, verbal noun mort or mortadh, past participle morte)

  1. Alternative form of murt

References[edit]

  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “mort”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From German Mörtel.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /môrt/
  • Hyphenation: mort

Noun[edit]

mȍrt m (Cyrillic spelling мо̏рт)

  1. (regional) mortar (masonry)

Declension[edit]

Declension of mort
singular plural
nominative mort mortovi
genitive morta mortova
dative mortu mortovima
accusative mort mortove
vocative morte mortovi
locative mortu mortovima
instrumental mortom mortovima

References[edit]

  • “mort” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Sudovian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mertéi, with ablaut alternation like in Lithuanian marìnti, from Proto-Indo-European *mer-.

Verb[edit]

mort

  1. to die (Polish gloss: umrzeć)

Related terms[edit]

nouns

References[edit]

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