morte

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See also: Morte and mořte

Asturian

Noun

morte m (plural mortes)

  1. (used until late 19th Century) Obsolete form of muerte.

Esperanto

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmorte/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -orte
  • Hyphenation: mor‧te

Adverb

morte

  1. deathly, mortally

French

Pronunciation

Adjective

morte

  1. feminine singular of mort

Participle

morte f sg

  1. feminine singular of mort

Further reading

Anagrams

Galician

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese morte, from Latin mortem, from Proto-Indo-European *mértis (death).

Pronunciation

Noun

morte f (plural mortes)

  1. death
    Synonym: óbito
  2. (figuratively) end, demise

Derived terms

References

Interlingua

Noun

morte (plural mortes)

  1. (uncountable) death (state of being dead)
  2. (countable) death (dead person or other organism)

Adjective

morte (not comparable)

  1. dead

Italian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin mortem, from Proto-Indo-European *mér-tis (death), from *mer- (to die).

Pronunciation

Noun

morte f (plural morti)

  1. death
    Synonyms: dipartita, trapasso
    Antonyms: immortalità, vita

Adjective

morte

  1. feminine plural of morto

Further reading

  • morte in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
  • morte in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

morte f

  1. ablative singular of mors (death)

References

  • morte in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • to be cut off by sudden death: subita morte exstingui
    • to die a natural death: necessaria (opp. voluntaria) morte mori
    • to punish any one with death: morte multare aliquem (Catil. 1. 11. 28)

Neapolitan

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Inherited from Latin mortem.

Noun

morte f (plural muorte)

  1. death

Etymology 2

Adjective

morte f pl

  1. feminine plural of muorto

Norman

Adjective

morte

  1. feminine singular of mort

Old Leonese

Noun

morte

  1. death
    • 1247, Fuero de Campumanes:
      tan bien en uida commo en morte,
      as well in life as in death

Descendants

  • Asturian: muerte, morte
  • Leonese: muerte
  • Mirandese: muorte
  • Extremaduran: muerti

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese morte, from Latin mortem (death), from Proto-Indo-European *mér-tis (death), from *mer- (to die).

Pronunciation

 

Noun

morte f (plural mortes)

  1. death (cessation of life)
    Synonyms: falecimento, óbito, passamento
    Antonyms: nascimento, ressurreição, ressuscitação
    • 2015, Maria do Socorro Silva de Aragão, Anais do II Congresso Nacional de Literatura, →ISBN, page 379:
      Goethe veio a público se defender, pois, aparentemente, uma centena de jovens cometera suicídio após a publicação de seu livro Os sofrimentos do jovem Werther, em 1774. Alguns estavam vestidos ao estilo da personagem principal do livro, ou adotaram o mesmo método de suicídio, ou o livro foi encontrado no local da morte.
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  2. (uncountable) the state of being dead
    Synonym: (euphemism) repouso
    Antonym: vida
  3. (figurative) destruction; ruin
    Synonyms: destruição, fim, ruína, término
    Antonyms: gênese, nascimento
  4. death (personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe)
    Synonym: ceifador

Derived terms

Further reading

  • morte” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913

Sardinian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin mors, mortem. Compare Italian morte.

Noun

morte f (plural mortes)

  1. death