mortifer
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From mors (“death”) + -fer (“-carrying”), literally “death-bearing”. Calque of Ancient Greek θανατηφόρος (thanatēphóros).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmor.ti.fer/, [ˈmɔr.tɪ.fɛr]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmor.ti.fer/
Adjective
mortifer (feminine mortifera, neuter mortiferum); first/second declension
- deadly, fatal
- Gospel of Mark, from 16:18
- Et si mortiferum quid biberint non eos nocebit.
- And if they drink anything deadly it shall not harm them.
- Et si mortiferum quid biberint non eos nocebit.
- Gospel of Mark, from 16:18
Inflection
First/second declension, nominative masculine singular in -er.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | mortifer | mortifera | mortiferum | mortiferī | mortiferae | mortifera | |
| Genitive | mortiferī | mortiferae | mortiferī | mortiferōrum | mortiferārum | mortiferōrum | |
| Dative | mortiferō | mortiferae | mortiferō | mortiferīs | mortiferīs | mortiferīs | |
| Accusative | mortiferum | mortiferam | mortiferum | mortiferōs | mortiferās | mortifera | |
| Ablative | mortiferō | mortiferā | mortiferō | mortiferīs | mortiferīs | mortiferīs | |
| Vocative | mortifer | mortifera | mortiferum | mortiferī | mortiferae | mortifera | |
Descendants
- Italian: mortifero
References
- mortifer in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- mortifer in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mortifer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to drain the cup of poison: poculum mortis (mortiferum) exhaurire (Cluent. 11. 31)
- to inflict a death-blow: plagam extremam or mortiferam infligere
- to inflict a mortal wound on some one: mortiferam plagam alicui infligere
- to be (seriously, mortally) wounded: vulnus (grave, mortiferum) accipere, excipere
- to drain the cup of poison: poculum mortis (mortiferum) exhaurire (Cluent. 11. 31)
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