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Webster 1913 Edition


Mort

Mort

,
Noun.
[Cf. Icel.
margt
, neut. of
margr
many.]
A great quantity or number.
[Prov. Eng.]
There was a
mort
of merrymaking.
Dickens.

Mort

,
Noun.
[Etym. uncert.]
A woman; a female.
[Cant, archaic]
Male gypsies all, not a
mort
among them.
B. Jonson.

Mort

,
Noun.
[Etymol. uncertain.]
(Zool.)
A salmon in its third year.
[Prov. Eng.]

Mort

,
Noun.
[F., death, fr. L.
mors
,
mortis
.]
1.
Death; esp., the death of game in the chase.
2.
A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game.
The sportsman then sounded a treble
mort
.
Sir W. Scott.
3.
The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Mort cloth
,
the pall spread over a coffin; black cloth indicative or mourning; funeral hangings.
Carlyle.
Mort stone
,
a large stone by the wayside on which the bearers rest a coffin.
[Eng.]
H. Taylor.

Webster 1828 Edition


Mort

MORT

,
Noun.
A tune sounded at the death of game.
1.
A salmon in his third year.

Definition 2024


Mort

Mort

See also: mort, mórt, mòrt, and mört

English

Proper noun

Mort

  1. A diminutive of the male given names Mortimer and Morton.

Anagrams

mort

mort

See also: Mort, mórt, mòrt, and mört

English

Noun

mort (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, 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.
Derived terms

Etymology 2

Compare Icelandic margt, neuter of margr (many).

Noun

mort

  1. A great quantity or number.
    • Charles Dickens
      There was a mort of merrymaking.

Etymology 3

Clipping of mortal.

Noun

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.
Antonyms

Etymology 4

Uncertain.

Noun

mort (plural morts)

  1. A three-year-old salmon.

Etymology 5

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

Alternative forms

Noun

mort (plural morts)

  1. (archaic, Britain, cant) A woman; a female.
    • Ben Jonson
      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 []
Synonyms
  • See Wikisaurus:woman
Derived terms

Anagrams

References

  1. 1 2 3 Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang. Routledge, 1973. ISBN 9780710077615.
  2. 1 2 3 Green, Jonathon (2012) Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime, Random House, ISBN 9780099549994, page 176
  3. 1 2 Barrère, Albert; Leland, Charles Godfrey (1889) A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant

Albanian

Etymology

From Latin mors, mortem.

Noun

mort m

  1. death

See also


Catalan

Etymology 1

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

Noun

mort f (uncountable)

  1. death

mort m (plural morts)

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

Etymology 2

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

Adjective

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

  1. dead

Verb

mort

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

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔrt

Verb

mort

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

Anagrams


French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔʁ/

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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

  1. past participle of mourir

Adjective

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

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

Etymology 2

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

Noun

mort f (plural morts)

  1. death

Noun

mort m (plural morts, feminine morte)

  1. dead person
Synonyms

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Ladin

Etymology

From Latin mors, mortem.

Noun

mort f (plural mortes)

  1. death

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

Noun

mort m, f (plural mors)

  1. death

Norman

Etymology 1

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

Adjective

mort m

  1. (Jersey) dead
    • rouai est mort, lé rouai vit!
      The king is dead, long live the king!
Synonyms
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old French mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

Noun

mort f (plural morts)

  1. (Jersey) death
Synonyms
Derived terms
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Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Provençal mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

Noun

mort f (plural morts)

  1. death

Related terms


Old French

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɔrt/
  • Rhymes: -ɔrt

Verb

mort

  1. past participle of morir

Adjective

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

Declension

Descendants

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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 2-7453-0520-4), line 1027:
      car sun chant signefie mort
      for his song signifies death

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Descendants


Romanian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [mort]

Adjective

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

  1. dead

Declension

Antonyms

Noun

mort m (plural morți, feminine equivalent moartă)

  1. dead body, corpse

Declension

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Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Adjective

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

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

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Scottish Gaelic

Noun

mort m (genitive singular moirt, plural moirt)

  1. Alternative form of murt

Verb

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

  1. Alternative form of murt

References

  • 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 0 901771 92 9

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Mörtel.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

mȍrt m (Cyrillic spelling мо̏рт)

  1. (regional) mortar (masonry)

Declension

References

  • mort” in Hrvatski jezični portal