morto

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morto (comparative more morto, superlative most morto)

1. (Ireland, slang) Very embarrassed or embarrassing.
   • 2007 March 21, Kilian Doyle, "An iconic parade" The Irish Times (Dublin) Motoring p.3

     I was, to use the vernacular, bleedin' morto. My shame notwithstanding, the whole day was a blast.

   • 2013 February 21, Louise McSharry, "Robbie Williams’ most morto moments of all time" Daily Edge:

     Robbie’s had some pretty embarrassing moments over the years. What better time than now to take a stroll down memory lane? Here are his most morto moments.

   • 2013 May 20 "Early trouble" The Irish Times (Dublin) Sport p.2

     Yes, Dan left the game early because he "wanted to miss the traffic and get a kebab on the way home" - after which Coventry scored twice. Morto.

• motor

From French mort, Italian morte, Spanish muerte, Portuguese morte, Romanian moarte, from Latin mors, mortis. All derived from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥-to-. Similar forms also exist in other Indo-European languages, such as Lithuanian mirtis, Russian смерть (smertʹ), Persian مرگ‎ (marg) and Hindi मृत्यु (mŕtyu).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmor.to/

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• Hyphenation: mor‧to
• Rhymes: -orto

morto (accusative singular morton, plural mortoj, accusative plural mortojn)

1. death

   Antonym: vivo

• mortpuno (“death penalty”)

Borrowed from Esperanto morto, English mortal, French mort, German Mortalität, Italian morte, Spanish muerte.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔr.to/

morto (plural morti)

1. death, decease

From Vulgar Latin *mortus, from Classical Latin mortuus, from Proto-Italic *mortwos, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥twós, derived from the root *mer- (“to die; to disappear”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔr.to/
• Hyphenation: mòr‧to

morto (feminine singular morta, masculine plural morti, feminine plural morte)

1. (literally and figuratively) dead

   Synonyms: crepato (colloquial), deceduto, defunto, estinto, perito, scomparso (euphemistic)

   Antonyms: vivente, vivo

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno [The Divine Comedy: Hell] (paperback), 12th edition, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto V, lines 139–142, page 83–84:

     Mentre che l’uno spirto questo disse, ¶ l’altro piangëa; sì che di pietade ¶ io venni men così com’ io morisse. ¶ E caddi come corpo morto cade.

     And all the while one spirit uttered this, the other one did weep so, that, for pity, I swooned away as if I had been dying, and fell, even as a dead body falls.

   • 1807, Ugo Foscolo, Dei Sepolcri‎, Molini, Landi e comp., published 1809, page 12:

     le madri ¶ Balzan ne’ sonni esterrefatte, e tendono ¶ Nude le braccia su l’amato capo ¶ Del caro lor lattante onde nol desti, ¶ Il gemer lungo di persona morta ¶ Chiedente la venal prece agli eredi ¶ Del santuario

     Mothers are shaken in their sleeps, shocked, and stretch their bare arms on their cherished baby’s beloved head, so that he's not awoken by the long wailing of a dead person asking the shrine’s heirs for the venal prayer

2. (by extension, colloquial, of a body part) dead (experiencing pins and needles)
3. (figuratively, of a time period) past

   Synonyms: passato, trascorso

   • 1835, Giacomo Leopardi, “XII. L'infinito [The Infinite]”, in Canti‎, Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, lines 4-8, page 49:

     e mi sovvien l’eterno, ¶ e le morte stagioni, e la presente ¶ e viva, e il suon di lei.

     and I remember the eternal and the dead seasons, and the living present, and its sound

• mezzo morto
• morto di fame

morto m (plural morti, feminine morta)

1. dead man

   Synonym: defunto

2. corpse, dead body

   Synonyms: cadavere, corpo

3. (figuratively) An inactive or idle person.
4. (card games) A fourth, absent player.
   1. (bridge) dummy

morto m (feminine singular morta, masculine plural morti, feminine plural morte)

1. past participle of morire; died.

• morte
• morire

• morto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

• môrto (obsolete)

From Old Portuguese morto, from Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuum, perfect active participle of morior (“I die”). Corresponds to Proto-Indo-European *mr̥twós, *mr̥tós (“dead, mortal”), *mr̥tó-, ultimately from *mer- (“to die”).

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾ.tu/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʁ.tu/
• Hyphenation: mor‧to

morto m (feminine singular morta, masculine plural mortos, feminine plural mortas, sometimes comparable)

1. dead (no longer living)
2. dead (completely inactive)
3. (informal) exhausted (extremely tired)
4. (figuratively) dead (not showing emotion)

Used with estar instead of ser.

For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:morto.

• (no longer living): falecido
• (exhausted): exausto, moído
• (not showing emotion): frio, gélido

• (no longer living): vivo

• morrer
• morte

morto m (plural mortos, feminine morta, feminine plural mortas)

1. corpse (dead person)
2. (card games) a number of cards set apart that can be picked up by the first player to play all his cards

• (corpse): corpo, cadáver, defunto

• (corpse): vivo