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Indonesian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin mortālitās.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: mor‧ta‧li‧tas
Noun
mortalitas (uncountable)
- mortality:
- the state or quality of being mortal.
- the number of deaths
- (demography) deaths resulting from an event (such as a war, epidemic or disaster).
- (demography, epidemiology) the number of deaths per given unit of population over a given period of time.
- death.
- Synonym: kematian
Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From mortālis + -tās.
Pronunciation
Noun
mortālitās f (genitive mortālitātis); third declension
- mortality
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “mortalitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mortalitas”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mortalitas 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)
- mortalitas in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.