mort

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

Borrowed from French mort (“death”).

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.
   • Sir Walter Scott

     The sportsman then sounded a treble mort.

3. (Britain, Scotland, dialectal) 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.

• mort cloth
• mort stone

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

mort

1. A great quantity or number.
   • Charles Dickens

     There was a mort of merrymaking.

   • J. R. R. Tolkien

     As it was, he still had a mort of treasure at home in his cave.

Clipping of mortal.

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.

• immort

Uncertain.

mort (plural morts)

1. A three-year-old salmon.

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

• From mort (“A three-year-old salmon”), by equation of women with fish.[en 2]
• From Welsh modryb (“aunt”)[en 2]
• From Welsh morwyn (“maid, virgin”)[en 2]
• From French amourette (“a crush”)[en 1]
• From, or cognate with, Dutch mot (“pig, lewd woman”), from Middle Low German mutte.[en 1]
• From French motte (“mound, esp. mons veneris”)[en 3]
• From Romani mintš (“female genitals”). Cognate with English minge.[en 3]

• mot, mott

mort (plural morts)

1. (obsolete, Britain, thieves' cant) A woman; a female.
   • 1621, Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed:

     Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.

   • 1611, Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girl, Edward Lumley 1840, p. 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 […]

• See Thesaurus:woman

• mTOR

From Latin mors, mortem.

mort m

1. death

• vdekje

From Latin mortus.

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

1. dead

From Latin mors.

mort f (plural morts)

1. death

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɾt/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔrt/

From Old Occitan mort, from Latin mors, mortem, from Proto-Indo-European *mér-tis (“death”), from *mer- (“to die”)

mort f (uncountable)

1. death

mort m (plural morts)

1. dead person
2. (colloquial) a difficult problem one must face

From Old Occitan mort, from Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuus, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥twós, *mr̥tós.

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

1. dead

mort

1. past participle of morir

   45.000 persones han mort

   45000 people have died

• morir

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• Rhymes: -ɔrt

mort

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

• trom

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʁ

From Middle French, from Old French mort, from Vulgar Latin *mortu, from Latin mortuus, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥twós, *mr̥tós.

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

1. past participle of mourir

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

1. dead

   Le roi est mort.

   The king is dead.

• défunt

From Middle French mort, from Old French mort, from Latin mors, mortem, from Proto-Indo-European *mértis (“death”), from *mer- (“to die”).

mort f (plural morts)

1. death

mort m (plural morts, feminine morte)

1. dead person

• (dead person): défunt

• mourir
• morte
• mourant

• “mort” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Latin mors, mortem.

mort f (plural mortes)

1. death

From Old French mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

mort m or f (plural mors)

1. death

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

mort m

1. (Jersey) dead
   • Lé rouai est mort, lé rouai vit!

     The king is dead, long live the king!

• souôs la bliête (“six feet under”)
• souôs les mèrgots (“dead and buried”)

From Old French mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

mort f (plural morts)

1. (Jersey) death

• décès

• mortalité (“mortality”)

From Old Norse murtr, murti

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

1. the common roach, Rutilus rutilus

• “mort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse murtr, murti

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

1. the common roach, Rutilus rutilus

• “mort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• mòrt

From Old Occitan mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

mort f (plural morts)

1. death

• morir

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

• IPA^(key): /mɔrt/
• Rhymes: -ɔrt

mort

1. past participle of morir

mort m (oblique and nominative feminine singular morte)

1. dead
   • circa 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland:

     Or veit Rollant que mort est sun ami

     Now Roland can see that death is his friend

• Middle French: mort
  • French: mort

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

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

1. death
   • circa 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, page 104 (of the Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, line 1027:

     car sun chant signefie mort

     for his song signifies death

• morir

• Middle French: mort
  • French: mort

From Latin mors.

mort f (plural morts)

1. death

• moérir

From Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuus, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥twós, *mr̥tós.

• IPA^(key): [mort]

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

1. dead

   oamenii 'morți'

   the dead men

• viu

mort m (plural morți, feminine equivalent moartă)

1. dead body, corpse

• muri
• moarte
• mortăciune
• amorți

• (Sursilvan) miert

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

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

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) dead

• murir

mort m (genitive singular moirt, plural moirt)

1. Alternative form of murt

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

1. Alternative form of murt

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

From German Mörtel.

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

mȍrt m (Cyrillic spelling мо̏рт)

1. (regional) mortar (masonry)

• “mort” in Hrvatski jezični portal