English

Proper noun

Mort

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

Anagrams

• mTOR

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

• mort cloth
• mort stone

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

• immort

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:

• 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]}

Alternative forms

• mot, mott

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

• mTOR

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

• vdekje

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

Related terms

• morir

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔrt

Verb

mort

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

Anagrams

• trom

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

• défunt

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

• (dead person): défunt

Related terms

• mourir
• morte
• mourant

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
   • Lé rouai est mort, lé rouai vit!‎

     The king is dead, long live the king!

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old French mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

Noun

mort f ‎(plural morts)

1. (Jersey) death

Synonyms

• décès

Derived terms

Related terms

• mortalité ‎(“mortality”)

Occitan

Alternative forms

• mòrt

Etymology

From Old Provençal mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

Noun

mort f (plural morts)

1. death

Related terms

• morir

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

• Middle French: mort
  • French: mort

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

Related terms

• morir

Descendants

• Middle French: mort
  • French: mort

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

• viu

Noun

mort m ‎(plural morți, feminine equivalent moartă)

1. dead body, corpse

Declension

Related terms

• muri
• moarte
• mortăciune

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) miert

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

Related terms

• murir

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