different between mort vs amort

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Etymology 1

Borrowed from French mort (“death”).

Noun

mort (countable and uncountable, plural morts)

1. Death; especially, the death of game in hunting.
2. A note sounded on a horn at the death of a deer.
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.

   • 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.

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. Etymology unknown. Documented possibilities include:

• From mort (“A three-year-old salmon”), by equation of women with fish.
• From Welsh modryb (“aunt”)
• From Welsh morwyn (“maid, virgin”)
• From French amourette (“a crush”)
• From, or cognate with, Dutch mot (“pig, lewd woman”), from Middle Low German mutte.
• From French motte (“mound, esp. mons veneris”)
• From Romani mintš (“female genitals”). Cognate with English minge.

Alternative forms

• mot, mott

Noun

mort (plural morts)

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

     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 Thesaurus:woman

Derived terms

References

Anagrams

• mTOR

Albanian

Etymology

From Latin mors, mortem.

Noun

mort m

1. death

See also

• vdekje

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• mortu

Etymology

From Latin mortuus. Compare Romanian mort.

Adjective

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

1. dead

Derived terms

• murtami
• nimort

Bourguignon

Etymology 1

From Latin mortus.

Adjective

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

1. dead

Etymology 2

From Latin mors.

Noun

mort f (plural morts)

1. death

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /?m??t/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /?m?rt/
• Rhymes: -??t

Etymology 1

From Old Occitan 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
3. (nautical) mooring block

Etymology 2

From Old Occitan mort, from Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuus, from Proto-Indo-European *mr?twós, *mr?tós.

Adjective

mort (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

Further reading

• “mort” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mort” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?rt

Verb

mort

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

Anagrams

• trom

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m??/
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle French, from Old French mort, from Vulgar Latin *mortu, from Latin mortuus, from Proto-Indo-European *mr?twós, *mr?tós.

Verb

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

1. past participle of mourir

Adjective

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

1. dead

   Le roi est mort.

   The king is dead.

Synonyms

• défunt

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Middle French mort, from Old French mort, from Latin mors, from Proto-Indo-European *mértis (“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

Derived terms

Related terms

• mourir
• morte
• mourant

Descendants

• ? English: mort

Further reading

• “mort” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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 or 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

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”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse murtr, murti

Noun

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

1. the common roach, Rutilus rutilus

References

• “mort” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse murtr, murti

Noun

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

1. the common roach, Rutilus rutilus

References

• “mort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Occitan

Alternative forms

• mòrt

Etymology

From Old Occitan 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): /m?rt/
• Rhymes: -?rt

Verb

mort

1. past participle of morir

Adjective

mort m (oblique and nominative feminine singular morte)

1. dead

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

Related terms

• morir

Descendants

• Middle French: mort
  • French: mort

Picard

Etymology

From Latin mors.

Noun

mort f (plural morts)

1. death

Related terms

• moérir

Romanian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuus, from Proto-Indo-European *mr?twós, *mr?tós.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [mort]

Adjective

mort m or n (feminine singular moart?, masculine plural mor?i, feminine and neuter plural moarte)

1. dead

   oamenii 'mor?i'

   the dead people

Declension

Antonyms

• viu

Noun

mort m (plural mor?i, feminine equivalent moart?)

1. dead body, corpse

Declension

Related terms

• muri
• moarte
• mort?ciune
• amor?i

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

• “mort” in Edward Dwelly, Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic–English Dictionary, 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, 1911, ?ISBN.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From German Mörtel.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

m?rt m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. (regional) mortar (masonry)

Declension

References

• “mort” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

English

Etymology

From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”) reinterpreted as all amort.

Adjective

amort

1. (archaic, literary) As if dead; depressed

   Synonyms: lifeless, spiritless, dejected

   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene 3,^[1]

     How fares my Kate? What, sweeting, all amort?

   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 3-5,^[2]

     How nowe fellowe Franticke, what all a mort? Doth this sadnes become thy madnes?

   • 1737, Susanna Centlivre, The Perjur’d Husband, London: W. Feales, Act IV, Scene 2, p. 56,^[3]

     What, all amort, Signior, no Courage left?

   • 1890, Francis Saltus Saltus, “The Harem” in Shadows and Ideals, Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton, p. 338,^[4]

     Here repose houris, dreamlike fair;

     Eyes half amort by amorous care;

     Marvels of flesh, wonders of hair!

Anagrams

• Morta, Toram, morat, torma