FromMiddle English mort , fromOld French mort ( “ death ” ) .
mort (countable anduncountable ,plural morts )
Death; especially, the death ofgame inhunting . A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.1814 July 7, [Walter Scott ],Waverley; or, ’Tis Sixty Years Since. [ … ] , volume(please specify |volume=I to III) , Edinburgh: [ … ] James Ballantyne and Co. forArchibald Constable and Co. ; London:Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown ,→OCLC :The sportsman then sounded a treblemort .
( UK , Scotland , dialect ) Theskin of asheep orlamb that hasdied ofdisease .( card games ) A variety ofdummy whist for three players.( card games ) The exposed or dummyhand ofcards in the game of mort.CompareIcelandic margt , neuter ofmargr ( “ many ” ) .
mort (plural morts )
A great quantity or number. Clipping ofmortal .
mort (plural morts )
( Internet , informal ) Aplayer in amulti-user dungeon who does not have specialadministrator privileges and whosecharacter can be killed.Uncertain.
mort (plural morts )
A three-year-oldsalmon . UK circa 1560–1890.[ en 1] Unknown. Documented possibilities include:
mort (plural morts )
( obsolete , UK , thieves' cant ) Awoman ; afemale .1862 ,George Borrow ,Wild Wales :"Yes, master! I and mymort worships something besides good ale; don't we, Sue?" and then he leered at themort , 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] , page109 :KINCHIN-MORTS, the Twenty-seventh and last Order of the Canting Crew, being girls of a year or two old whom theMorts (their Mothers) carry at their Backs in Slates (Sheets) and if they have no children of their own they [ …]
↑1.0 1.1 1.2 Eric Partridge,The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang . Routledge, 1973.→ISBN . ↑2.0 2.1 2.2 Green, Jonathon (2012 ),Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime , Random House,→ISBN , page176 ↑3.0 3.1 Albert Barrère andCharles G[odfrey] Leland , compilers and editors (1889–1890 ), “mort”, inA Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant [ … ] , volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: [ … ] The Ballantyne Press ,→OCLC . FromLatin mors, mortem .
mort m
death FromLatin mortuus . CompareRomanian mort .
mort (feminine morte ,masculine plural morts ,feminine plural morti )
dead FromLatin mortuus .
mort (feminine mote ,masculine plural morts ,feminine plural motes )
dead FromLatin mors .
mort f (plural morts )
death Inherited fromOld Catalan mort , fromLatin mortem .
mort f (uncountable )
death mort m (plural morts )
( colloquial ) a difficult problem one must face( nautical ) mooring block Inherited fromOld Catalan mort , fromLatin mortuus .
mort (feminine morta ,masculine plural morts ,feminine plural mortes )
dead mort m (plural morts )
dead person mort (feminine morta ,masculine plural morts ,feminine plural mortes )
past participle ofmorir 45.000 persones hanmort 45000 people havedied “mort ”, inDiccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language ] (in Catalan), second edition,Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan:Institut d'Estudis Catalans ], April 2007 “mort ”, inGran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana ,Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana ,2025 “mort” inDiccionari normatiu valencià ,Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua .“mort” inDiccionari català-valencià-balear , Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.mort
inflection ofmorren : second / third-person singular present indicative ( archaic ) plural imperative Inherited fromMiddle French , fromOld French mort , fromVulgar Latin *mortu , fromLatin mortuus .
mort (feminine morte ,masculine plural morts ,feminine plural mortes )
past participle ofmourir mort (feminine morte ,masculine plural morts ,feminine plural mortes )
dead Le roi estmort . ―The king isdead . 1960 , “Les deux guitares”, performed byCharles Aznavour :Tu es vivant aujourd'hui, tu serasmort demain / Et encore plus après-demain You are alive today, you will bedead tomorrow / And even more after tomorrow mort m (plural morts ,feminine morte )
dead personSynonym: défunt Inherited fromMiddle French mort , fromOld French mort , fromLatin mors .
mort f (plural morts )
death Guy Miège, French-English dictionary, 1688. "Une mort naturelle, violente, subite, a natural, a violent, or a sudden death. Mort glorieuse ou honteuse, a glorious or a shamefull death."
FromLatin mors, mortem .
mort f (plural mortes )
death FromOld French mort , fromLatin mors, mortem .
mort m or f (plural mors )
death FromOld French mort , fromVulgar Latin *mortu(s) , fromLatin mortuus .
mort m
( Jersey ) dead Lérouai estmort , lé rouai vit! The king isdead , long live the king! FromOld French mort , fromLatin mors, mortem .
mort f (plural morts )
( Jersey ) death FromOld Norse murtr ,murti .
mort m (definite singular morten ,indefinite plural morter ,definite plural mortene )
thecommon roach ,Rutilus rutilus “mort” inThe Bokmål Dictionary .FromOld Norse murtr ,murti .
mort m (definite singular morten ,indefinite plural mortar ,definite plural mortane )
thecommon roach ,Rutilus rutilus “mort” inThe Nynorsk Dictionary .FromOld Occitan mort , fromLatin mors, mortem .
mort f (plural morts )
death FromVulgar Latin *mortu(s) , fromLatin mortuus .
mort
past participle ofmorir mort m (oblique and nominative feminine singular morte )
dead c. 1150 , Turoldus,La Chanson de Roland :Or veit Rollant quemort est sun ami Now Roland can see that his friend isdead FromLatin mors, mortem . First attested in Old French in 881 in theSequence of Saint Eulalia .
mort oblique singular , f (oblique plural morz or mortz ,nominative singular mort ,nominative plural morz or mortz )
death c. 1150 , Thomas d'Angleterre,Le Roman de Tristan , Champion Classiques edition,→ISBN , page104 , line1027 :car sun chant signefiemort for his song signifiesdeath FromLatin mors .
mort f (plural morts )
death Inherited fromVulgar Latin *mortu(s) , fromLatin mortuus .
mort m or n (feminine singular moartă ,masculine plural morți ,feminine/neuter plural moarte )
dead Antonym: viu oamenii morți ―thedead people mort m (plural morți ,feminine equivalent moartă )
dead body ,corpse FromVulgar Latin *mortu(s) , fromLatin mortuus .
mort m (feminine singular morta ,masculine plural morts ,feminine plural mortas )
( Rumantsch Grischun , Sutsilvan , Surmiran , Vallader ) dead mort m (genitive singular moirt ,plural moirt )
alternative form ofmurt mort (past mhort ,future mortaidh ,verbal noun mort or mortadh ,past participle morte )
alternative form ofmurt Edward Dwelly (1911 ), “mort”, inFaclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary ][1] , 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited,→ISBN Clipping ofGerman Mörtel .
IPA (key ) : /môrt/ Hyphenation:mort mȍrt m inan (Cyrillic spelling мо̏рт )
( regional ) mortar (masonry)“mort ”, inHrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal ] (in Serbo-Croatian),2006–2025 Derived fromProto-Balto-Slavic *mertéi , with ablaut alternation like inLithuanian mari̇̀nti , fromProto-Indo-European *mer- .
mort
todie ( Polish gloss:umrzeć )