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mort

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Noun

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.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mort (plural morts)

  1. A great quantity or number.

Etymology 3

Clipping of mortal.

Noun

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

Etymology 4

Uncertain.

Noun

mort (plural morts)

  1. A three-year-old salmon.

Etymology 5

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

Alternative forms

Noun

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.
    • 1862, George Borrow, Wild Wales:
      "Yes, master! I and my mort worships something besides good ale; don't we, Sue?" and then he leered at the mort, who leered at him, and both made odd motions backwards and forwards, causing the baskets which hung round them to creak and rustle, and uttering loud shouts of laughter, which roused the echoes of the neighbouring hills.
    • 1896, John Stephen Farmer, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ... with Synonyms in English, French ... Etc. Compiled by J.S. Farmer [and W.E. Henley], page 109:
      KINCHIN-MORTS, the Twenty-seventh and last Order of the Canting Crew, being girls of a year or two old whom the Morts (their Mothers) carry at their Backs in Slates (Sheets) and if they have no children of their own they […]
Synonyms
Derived terms

References

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

Anagrams

Albanian

Etymology

From Latin mors, mortem.

Noun

mort m

  1. death

See also

Aromanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin mortuus. Compare Romanian mort.

Adjective

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

  1. dead

Derived terms

  • murtami
  • nimort

Bourguignon

Etymology 1

From Latin mortuus.

Adjective

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

  1. dead

Etymology 2

From Latin mors.

Noun

mort f (plural morts)

  1. death

Catalan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan mort, from Latin mortem.

Noun

mort f (uncountable)

  1. death

Noun

mort m (plural morts)

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

Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Catalan mort, from Latin mortuus.

Adjective

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

  1. dead

Noun

mort m (plural morts)

  1. dead person

Participle

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

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

Further reading

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

mort

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

Anagrams

French

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

Participle

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

  1. past participle of mourir

Adjective

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

  1. dead
    Le roi est mort.
    The king is dead.
Synonyms
Derived terms

Noun

mort m (plural morts, feminine morte)

  1. dead person
    Synonym: défunt
Derived terms

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mort f (plural morts)

  1. death
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → English: mort

Further reading

Ladin

Etymology

From Latin mors, mortem.

Noun

mort f (plural mortes)

  1. death

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

Noun

mort m or f (plural mors)

  1. death

Descendants

Norman

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

mort m

  1. (Jersey) dead
    Lé rouai est mort, lé rouai vit!
    The king is dead, long live the king!
Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old French mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

Noun

mort f (plural morts)

  1. (Jersey) death
Synonyms
Derived terms

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology

From Old Norse murtr, murti.

Noun

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

  1. the common roach, Rutilus rutilus

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

Etymology

From Old Norse murtr, murti.

Noun

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

  1. the common roach, Rutilus rutilus

References

Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Occitan mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

Pronunciation

Noun

mort f (plural morts)

  1. death

Old French

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔɾt/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrt

Verb

mort

  1. past participle of morir

Adjective

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
More information Case, masculine ...
Case masculine feminine neuter
singular subject morz morte mort
oblique mort morte mort
plural subject mort mortes mort
oblique morz mortes mort
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Descendants

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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
Descendants

Picard

Etymology

From Latin mors.

Noun

mort f (plural morts)

  1. death
  • moérir

Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adjective

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

More information singular, plural ...
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
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Noun

mort m (plural morți, feminine equivalent moartă)

  1. dead body, corpse

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
Declension of mort
singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative-accusative mort mortul morți morții
genitive-dative mort mortului morți morților
vocative mortule morților
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Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Adjective

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

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

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

mort m (genitive singular moirt, plural moirt)

  1. Alternative form of murt

Verb

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

  1. Alternative form of murt

References

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

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Mörtel.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mȍrt m (Cyrillic spelling мо̏рт)

  1. (regional) mortar (masonry)

Declension

More information singular, plural ...
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
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References

  • “mort”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Sudovian

Etymology

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

Verb

mort

  1. to die (Polish gloss: umrzeć)
nouns

References

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