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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English mort, from Old French mort (“death”).
Noun
mort (countable and uncountable, plural morts)
- Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
- A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
- (UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
- (card games) A variety of dummy whist for three players.
- (card games) The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
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Etymology 2
Compare Icelandic margt, neuter of margr (“many”).
Noun
mort
- A great quantity or number.
Etymology 3
Clipping of mortal.
Noun
mort (plural morts)
- (Internet, informal) A player in a multi-user dungeon who does not have special administrator privileges and whose character can be killed.
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Etymology 4
Uncertain.
Noun
mort (plural morts)
- A three-year-old salmon.
Etymology 5
UK circa 1560–1890.[en 1] Unknown. Documented possibilities include:
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Noun
mort (plural morts)
- (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A woman; a female.
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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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang. Routledge, 1973. →ISBN.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Green, Jonathon (2012) Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime, Random House, →ISBN, page 176
- ↑ 3.0 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.
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Albanian
Etymology
From Latin mors, mortem.
Noun
mort m
- death
See also
Aromanian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Latin mortuus. Compare Romanian mort.
Adjective
mort (feminine morte, masculine plural morts, feminine plural morti)
- dead
Derived terms
Bourguignon
Etymology 1
From Latin mortuus.
Adjective
mort (feminine mote, masculine plural morts, feminine plural motes)
- dead
Etymology 2
From Latin mors.
Noun
mort f (plural morts)
- death
Catalan
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old Catalan mort, from Latin mortem.
Noun
mort f (uncountable)
- death
Noun
mort m (plural morts)
- (colloquial) a difficult problem one must face
- (nautical) mooring block
Etymology 2
Inherited from Old Catalan mort, from Latin mortuus.
Adjective
mort (feminine morta, masculine plural morts, feminine plural mortes)
- dead
Noun
mort m (plural morts)
- dead person
Participle
mort (feminine morta, masculine plural morts, feminine plural mortes)
- past participle of morir
- 45.000 persones han mort
- 45000 people have died
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Further reading
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
mort
- inflection of morren:
- second/third-person singular present indicative
- (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)
- past participle of mourir
Adjective
mort (feminine morte, masculine plural morts, feminine plural mortes)
- dead
Le roi est mort.- The king is dead.
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Noun
mort m (plural morts, feminine morte)
- 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)
- death
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Descendants
Further reading
Ladin
Etymology
From Latin mors, mortem.
Noun
mort f (plural mortes)
- death
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French mort, from Latin mors, mortem.
Noun
mort m or f (plural mors)
- death
Descendants
Norman
Etymology 1
From Old French mort, from Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuus.
Adjective
mort m
- (Jersey) dead
Lé rouai est mort, lé rouai vit!- The king is dead, long live the king!
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Etymology 2
From Old French mort, from Latin mors, mortem.
Noun
mort f (plural morts)
- (Jersey) death
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Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Old Norse murtr, murti.
Noun
mort m (definite singular morten, indefinite plural morter, definite plural mortene)
- the common roach, Rutilus rutilus
References
- “mort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse murtr, murti.
Noun
mort m (definite singular morten, indefinite plural mortar, definite plural mortane)
- the common roach, Rutilus rutilus
References
- “mort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Occitan
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Occitan mort, from Latin mors, mortem.
Pronunciation
Noun
mort f (plural morts)
- death
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Old French
Etymology 1
From Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuus.
Pronunciation
Verb
mort
- past participle of morir
Adjective
mort m (oblique and nominative feminine singular morte)
- 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
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)
- 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
Picard
Etymology
From Latin mors.
Noun
mort f (plural morts)
- death
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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)
- dead
- Antonym: viu
- oamenii morți ― the dead people
Declension
Noun
mort m (plural morți, feminine equivalent moartă)
- dead body, corpse
Declension
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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)
- (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) dead
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Scottish Gaelic
Noun
mort m (genitive singular moirt, plural moirt)
- Alternative form of murt
Verb
mort (past mhort, future mortaidh, verbal noun mort or mortadh, past participle morte)
- 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)
- (regional) mortar (masonry)
Declension
References
- “mort” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Sudovian
Etymology
Derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mertéi, with ablaut alternation like in Lithuanian marìnti, from Proto-Indo-European *mer-.
Verb
mort
- to die (Polish gloss: umrzeć)
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