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mort

See also: Mort, mórt, mòrt, môrt, and mört

English

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English mort, from Old French mort (“death”).

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mort (countable and uncountable, plural morts)

  1. Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
  2. A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
  3. (UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
  4. (card games) A variety of dummy whist for three players.
  5. (card games) The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.
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Etymology 2

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Compare Icelandic margt, neuter of margr (“many”).

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mort (plural morts)

  1. A great quantity or number.

Etymology 3

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Clipping of mortal.

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mort (plural morts)

  1. (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

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Uncertain.

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mort (plural morts)

  1. A three-year-old salmon.

Etymology 5

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UK circa 1560–1890.[en 1] Unknown. Documented possibilities include:

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mort (plural morts)

  1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A woman; a female.
    • 1621, Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed:
      Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.
    • 1862, George Borrow, Wild Wales:
      "Yes, master! I and my mort worships something besides good ale; don't we, Sue?" and then he leered at the mort, who leered at him, and both made odd motions backwards and forwards, causing the baskets which hung round them to creak and rustle, and uttering loud shouts of laughter, which roused the echoes of the neighbouring hills.
    • 1896, John Stephen Farmer, Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ... with Synonyms in English, French ... Etc. Compiled by J.S. Farmer [and W.E. Henley], page 109:
      KINCHIN-MORTS, the Twenty-seventh and last Order of the Canting Crew, being girls of a year or two old whom the Morts (their Mothers) carry at their Backs in Slates (Sheets) and if they have no children of their own they […]
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Terms derived from mort

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang. Routledge, 1973. →ISBN.
  2. ↑ 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. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “mort”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC.

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Albanian

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Etymology

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From Latin mors, mortem.

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mort m

  1. death

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Aromanian

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Etymology

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From Latin mortuus. Compare Romanian mort.

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mort (feminine morte, masculine plural morts, feminine plural morti)

  1. dead

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Bourguignon

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Etymology 1

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From Latin mortuus.

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mort (feminine mote, masculine plural morts, feminine plural motes)

  1. dead

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From Latin mors.

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mort f (plural morts)

  1. death

Catalan

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old Catalan mort, from Latin mortem.

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mort f (uncountable)

  1. death

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mort m (plural morts)

  1. (colloquial) a difficult problem one must face
  2. (nautical) mooring block

Etymology 2

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Inherited from Old Catalan mort, from Latin mortuus.

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mort (feminine morta, masculine plural morts, feminine plural mortes)

  1. dead

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mort m (plural morts)

  1. dead person

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mort (feminine morta, masculine plural morts, feminine plural mortes)

  1. past participle of morir
    45.000 persones han mort
    45000 people have died
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Dutch

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mort

  1. inflection of morren:
    1. second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. (archaic) plural imperative

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French

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Middle French, from Old French mort, from Vulgar Latin *mortu, from Latin mortuus.

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mort (feminine morte, masculine plural morts, feminine plural mortes)

  1. past participle of mourir

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mort (feminine morte, masculine plural morts, feminine plural mortes)

  1. dead
    Le roi est mort.
    The king is dead.
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Noun

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mort m (plural morts, feminine morte)

  1. dead person
    Synonym: défunt
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Etymology 2

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Inherited from Middle French mort, from Old French mort, from Latin mors.

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mort f (plural morts)

  1. death
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  • → English: mort

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Ladin

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From Latin mors, mortem.

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mort f (plural mortes)

  1. death

Middle French

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Etymology

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From Old French mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

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mort m or f (plural mors)

  1. death

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Norman

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Etymology 1

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From Old French mort, from Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuus.

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mort m

  1. (Jersey) dead
    Lé rouai est mort, lé rouai vit!
    The king is dead, long live the king!
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Etymology 2

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From Old French mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

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mort f (plural morts)

  1. (Jersey) death
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Norwegian Bokmål

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From Old Norse murtr, murti.

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mort m (definite singular morten, indefinite plural morter, definite plural mortene)

  1. the common roach, Rutilus rutilus

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Norwegian Nynorsk

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Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
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From Old Norse murtr, murti.

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mort m (definite singular morten, indefinite plural mortar, definite plural mortane)

  1. the common roach, Rutilus rutilus

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Occitan

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From Old Occitan mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

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mort f (plural morts)

  1. death
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Old French

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Etymology 1

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From Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuus.

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mort

  1. past participle of morir

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mort m (oblique and nominative feminine singular morte)

  2. 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
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Declension of mort
Number Case Masculine Feminine Neuter
Singular Subject morz morte mort
Oblique mort morte mort
Plural Subject mort mortes mort
Oblique morz mortes mort

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Etymology 2

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From Latin mors, mortem. First attested in Old French in 881 in the Sequence of Saint Eulalia.

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mort oblique singular, f (oblique plural morz or mortz, nominative singular mort, nominative plural morz or mortz)

  2. 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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Picard

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Etymology

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From Latin mors.

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mort f (plural morts)

  1. death
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Romanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuus.

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mort m or n (feminine singular moartă, masculine plural morți, feminine and neuter plural moarte)

  1. dead
    Antonym: viu
    oamenii morți ― the dead people

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Declension of mort
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite mort moartă morți moarte
definite mortul moarta morții moartele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite mort moarte morți moarte
definite mortului moartei morților moartelor

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mort m (plural morți, feminine equivalent moartă)

  1. dead body, corpse

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Declension of mort
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) mort mortul (niște) morți morții
genitive/dative (unui) mort mortului (unor) morți morților
vocative mortule morților
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Romansch

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Etymology

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From Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuus.

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mort m (feminine singular morta, masculine plural morts, feminine plural mortas)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) dead
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mort m (genitive singular moirt, plural moirt)

  1. Alternative form of murt

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mort (past mhort, future mortaidh, verbal noun mort or mortadh, past participle morte)

  1. Alternative form of murt

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  • Edward Dwelly (1911) “mort”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan‎[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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From German Mörtel.

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  • IPA(key): /môrt/
  • Hyphenation: mort

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mȍrt m (Cyrillic spelling мо̏рт)

  1. (regional) mortar (masonry)

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Declension of mort
singular plural
nominative mort mortovi
genitive morta mortova
dative mortu mortovima
accusative mort mortove
vocative morte mortovi
locative mortu mortovima
instrumental mortom mortovima

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  • “mort”, in Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2024

Sudovian

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Etymology

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Derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mertéi, with ablaut alternation like in Lithuanian marìnti, from Proto-Indo-European *mer-.

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mort

  1. to die (Polish gloss: umrzeć)
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