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Latin
Etymology
From mors (“death”) + voluntāria (“voluntary”), literally meaning "voluntary death" or "willing death".
Pronunciation
Noun
mors voluntāria f (genitive mortis voluntāriae); third declension
- suicide
c. 117 CE,
Tacitus,
Annales 11.2:
- Ipsa ad perniciem Poppaeae festinat subditis qui terrore carceris ad voluntariam mortem propellerent.
- She (Messalina) is accelerating Poppaea's destruction by suborned agents that they might drive her with a great fear of prison to (commit) suicide.
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