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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mortifer, mortiferus, derived from mors (“death”). By surface analysis, morte + -ifero.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /morˈti.fe.ro/
- Rhymes: -ifero
- Hyphenation: mor‧tì‧fe‧ro
Adjective
mortifero (feminine mortifera, masculine plural mortiferi, feminine plural mortifere) (literary)
- deadly, lethal, deathly, mortiferous
- Synonyms: letale, mortale
2009, Daniele Luttazzi, “Pesci selvatici e le melodie delle foreste andaluse [Wild fish, and the melodies of Andalusian forests]”, in La guerra civile fredda [Cold Civil War], 2nd edition (paperback), Feltrinelli, →ISBN, page 207:la satira è contro il potere, di cui riesce ad annullare la natura mortifera mantenendo viva nel nostro immaginario quella sana oscillazione fra sacro e profano che chiamiamo dubbio- Satire is against Power, whose deathly nature it is able to cancel, keeping alive, in our imagination, that healthy oscillation between sacred and profane which we call doubt
- (rare) foreboding death
- (rare) mortal
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Latin
Adjective
mortiferō
- dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of mortifer