mort

• (UK) IPA^(key): /mɔːt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /mɔɹt/
• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

From Middle English mort, from Old French mort (“death”).

mort (countable and uncountable, plural morts)

1. Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
   • 1958, T[erence] H[anbury] White, chapter I, in The Once and Future King, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam's Sons, →ISBN, book I (The Sword in the Stone):

     If you did the wrong thing at the mort or the undoing, for instance, you were bent over the body of the dead beast and smacked with the flat side of a sword.

2. 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. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC:

     The sportsman then sounded a treble mort.

3. (UK, 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.

Compare Icelandic margt, neuter of margr (“many”).

mort (plural morts)

1. A great quantity or number.
   • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 63, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

     a mort of water

   • 1937 (written, first published in 1949), J. R. R. Tolkien, Farmer Giles of Ham

     As it was, he still had a mort of treasure at home in his cave.

Clipping of mortal.

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.

• immort

Uncertain.

mort (plural morts)

1. A three-year-old salmon.

UK circa 1560–1890.^{[en 1]} 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]}

• mot, mott

mort (plural morts)

1. (obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) A woman; a female.
   • 1621, Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed:

     Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.

   • 1862, George Borrow, Wild Wales:

     "Yes, master! I and my mort worships something besides good ale; don't we, Sue?" and then he leered at the mort, 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], page 109:

     KINCHIN-MORTS, the Twenty-seventh and last Order of the Canting Crew, being girls of a year or two old whom the Morts (their Mothers) carry at their Backs in Slates (Sheets) and if they have no children of their own they […]

• See Thesaurus:woman

• mTOR

From Latin mors, mortem.

mort m

1. death

• vdekje

• mortu

From Latin mortuus. Compare Romanian mort.

mort (feminine morte, masculine plural morts, feminine plural morti)

1. dead

• murtami
• nimort

From Latin mortuus.

mort (feminine mote, masculine plural morts, feminine plural motes)

1. dead

From Latin mors.

mort f (plural morts)

1. death

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔrt]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [ˈmɔɾt]

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• Rhymes: -ɔɾt

Inherited from Old Catalan mort, from Latin mortem.

mort f (uncountable)

1. death

mort m (plural morts)

1. (colloquial) a difficult problem one must face
2. (nautical) mooring block

Inherited from Old Catalan mort, from Latin mortuus.

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

1. dead

mort m (plural morts)

1. dead person

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

1. past participle of morir

   45.000 persones han mort

   45000 people have died

• morir

• “mort”, in Diccionari 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”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025.
• “mort” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “mort” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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• Rhymes: -ɔrt

mort

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

• trom

• IPA^(key): /mɔʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɔʁ
• Homophones: mord, mords, more, mores, mors, morts (general), maure, maures (one pronunciation)

Inherited from Middle French, from Old French mort, from Vulgar Latin *mortu, from Latin mortuus.

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

1. past participle of mourir

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

1. dead

   Le roi est mort. ― The king is dead.

   • 1960, “Les deux guitares”, performed by Charles Aznavour:

     Tu es vivant aujourd'hui, tu seras mort demain / Et encore plus après-demain

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• défunt

mort m (plural morts, feminine morte)

1. dead person

   Synonym: défunt

Inherited from Middle French mort, from Old French mort, from Latin mors.

mort f (plural morts)

1. 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."

• mourir
• morte
• mourant

• → English: mort

• “mort”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Latin mors, mortem.

mort f (plural mortes)

1. death

From Old French mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

mort m or f (plural mors)

1. death

• French: mort
  • → English: mort

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

mort m

1. (Jersey) dead

   Lé rouai est mort, lé rouai vit!

   The king is dead, long live the king!

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

From Old French mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

mort f (plural morts)

1. (Jersey) death

• décès

• mortalité (“mortality”)

From Old Norse murtr, murti.

mort m (definite singular morten, indefinite plural morter, definite plural mortene)

1. the common roach, Rutilus rutilus

• “mort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse murtr, murti.

mort m (definite singular morten, indefinite plural mortar, definite plural mortane)

1. the common roach, Rutilus rutilus

• “mort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• mòrt

From Old Occitan mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

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mort f (plural morts)

1. death

• morir

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɾt/
• Rhymes: -ɔrt

mort

1. past participle of morir

mort m (oblique and nominative feminine singular morte)

2. dead
   • c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland:

     Or veit Rollant que mort est sun ami

     Now Roland can see that his friend is dead

• Middle French: mort
  • French: mort
• Picard: mort
• Norman: mort (Jersey)
• Walloon: moirt

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

mort oblique singular, f (oblique plural morz or mortz, nominative singular mort, nominative plural morz or mortz)

2. death
   • c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 104, line 1027:

     car sun chant signefie mort

     for his song signifies death

• morir

• Middle French: mort
  • French: mort
    • → English: mort
• Picard: mort
• Norman: mort (Jersey)
• Walloon: moirt

From Latin mors.

mort f (plural morts)

1. death

• moérir

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

• IPA^(key): [mort]

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

1. dead

   Antonym: viu

   oamenii morți ― the dead people

mort m (plural morți, feminine equivalent moartă)

1. dead body, corpse

• miert (Sursilvan)

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

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

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

• murir

mort m (genitive singular moirt, plural moirt)

1. alternative form of murt

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

1. alternative form of murt

• Edward Dwelly (1911) “mort”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary]‎^[1], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

Clipping of Mörtel.

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

mȍrt m inan (Cyrillic spelling мо̏рт)

1. (regional) mortar (masonry)

• “mort”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

Derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic *mertéi, with ablaut alternation like in Lithuanian mari̇̀nti, from Proto-Indo-European *mer-.

mort

1. to die (Polish gloss: umrzeć)

• Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 77