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Latin
Etymology
From in- + mortālis.
Pronunciation
Adjective
immortālis (neuter immortāle, adverb immortāliter); third-declension two-termination adjective
- immortal, undying, not subject to death.
- Synonym: aeternus
Declension
Third-declension two-termination adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “immortalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “immortalis”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- immortalis in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- immortalis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to give thanks to heaven: grates agere (dis immortalibus)
- to win (undying) fame: gloriam (immortalem) consequi, adipisci
- to confer undying fame on, immortalise some one: aliquem immortali gloria afficere
- to bring forward a proof of the immortality of the soul: argumentum afferre, quo animos immortales esse demonstratur
- to thank, glorify the immortal gods: grates, laudes agere dis immortalibus
- and may heaven avert the omen! heaven preserve us from this: quod di immortales omen avertant! (Phil. 44. 11)
- immortalis in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016