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Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *admorticīre (with the prefix replaced by es-), variant form of *admortīre, derived from Latin mortuus (“dead”).
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esmorteir (first-person singular present esmorteeixo, first-person singular preterite esmorteí, past participle esmorteït)
- to muffle
2002, Albert Sánchez Piñol, chapter 6, in La pell freda, La Campana, →ISBN:El soroll de la maquinària ens arribava esmorteït, un carrisqueig de pèndol, més fort quan els vagons dels focus circulaven just damunt nostre, més lleu quan s'allunyaven.- The sound of the machinery came to us muffled — the screeching of a pendulum: stronger when the focus carriages passed right overhead, less strong when they moved away.
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References
- “esmorteir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
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