different between mortar vs mastic

English

Etymology

From Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mort?rium. Doublet of mortarium.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??(r)t?(r)
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??t?(?)/

Noun

mortar (countable and uncountable, plural mortars)

1. (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
2. (countable) A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories.
3. (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
4. (countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.

Derived terms

• mortarboard

Translations

Verb

mortar (third-person singular simple present mortars, present participle mortaring, simple past and past participle mortared)

1. (transitive) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
2. (transitive) To pound in a mortar.
3. To fire a mortar (weapon).
4. To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).

Related terms

• bricks and mortar

See also

• gun
• howitzer

Anagrams

• marrot

Ido

Etymology

Derived from morto +? -ar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?r?tar/

Verb

mortar (present mortas, past mortis, future mortos, conditional mortus, imperative mortez)

1. (intransitive, literally and figuratively) to die, cease to live, depart this life
2. (intransitive) to go out (of fire, lights, etc.)
3. (intransitive) to come to an end (of movement)

Conjugation

Indonesian

Etymology

From English mortar, from Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mort?rium. Doublet of mortir.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?m?r.tar]
• Hyphenation: mor?tar

Noun

mortar (first-person possessive mortarku, second-person possessive mortarmu, third-person possessive mortarnya)

1. mortar,
   1. a mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
   2. a hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.

      Synonym: lumpang

Further reading

• “mortar” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.

Middle English

Noun

mortar

1. Alternative form of morter

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

mortar m

1. indefinite plural of mort

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mort?rium (19th century).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mor?tar/

Noun

mortar n (uncountable)

1. mortar (construction material)

Declension

Related terms

• mortier
• mojar

Further reading

• mortar in DEX online - Dic?ionare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

English

Alternative forms

• mastick

Etymology

From Middle English mastik, from Old French mastic, from Latin mastiche, from Ancient Greek ??????? (mastíkh?), from ???????? (mastikhá?, “I chew”) (note the chewing gum sense). Doublet of masticate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mæst?k/
• Rhymes: -æst?k

Noun

mastic (countable and uncountable, plural mastics)

1. An evergreen shrub or small tree, Pistacia lentiscus (mastic tree), native to the Mediterranean.
   • 1745, Richard Pococke, A Description of the East, and Some other Countries, Volume II, Book I, Chapter 1,^[1]

     The island of Scio is now called by the Greeks Kio [???], the antient Greek name of it was Chios [????]; it was first called Ætalia in very antient times, and also Mastic, on account of the great number of mastic trees that were in this island.

2. A hard, brittle, aromatic and transparent resin produced by this tree and used to make varnishes and chewing gum, and as a flavouring.
   • 1799, John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, Voyage Performed by the Late Earl of Sandwich Round the Mediterranean in the Years 1738 and 1739, Written by Himself, pp. 317-318,^[2]

     The mastic, of which the people of Scio gather every year an incredible quantity, is a very rich gum, made use of in medicines, which distils from a shrub called, in Latin, Lentiscus.

   • 1830, Thomas Moore, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron: with Notices of his Life, New York: J. & J. Harper, Volume I, p. 402,^[3]

     Having taken upon me to order the repast, and knowing that Lord Byron, for the last two days, had done nothing towards sustenance, beyond eating a few biscuits and (to appease appetite) chewing mastic, I desired that we should have a good supply of, at least, two kinds of fish.

   • 1834, James Augustus St. John, Egypt and Mohammed Ali, or Travels in the Valley of the Nile, London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman, Volume I, Chapter 132, pp. 322-323,^[4]

     […] in many harems, the women are in the habit of burning mastic on a small chaffing-dish, and holding the mouth of the jars over the smoke; by which means they communicate to them a scent which perfumes the water for eight or ten days, at the expiration of which the operation must be repeated.
3. An alcoholic liquor flavoured with this resin.
   • 1913, Marjorie Bowen, A Knight of Spain, Part II, Chapter 6,^[5]

     He took a list from the desk and read aloud Fatima’s offerings:— […] four bottles of rare mastic from Scio.

4. A flexible, waterproof cement used as an adhesive, sealant or filler.
   • 1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, 2001, Part One, Chapter 5,

     ‘They have a few holes here and there. A few. Tiny tiny.’ ‘We could fix those up easy. Mastic cement. Not expensive, boss.’

Derived terms

• black mastic (Terminalia eriostachya)
• false mastic (Sideroxylon foetidissimum)
• mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus)
• yellow mastic (Sideroxylon foetidissimum)

Translations

See also

• Mastichochoria

Further reading

• Mastic on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Amcits, Stimac, misact

Middle English

Noun

mastic

1. Alternative form of mastik

Romanian

Etymology

From French mastic.

Noun

mastic n (plural masticuri)

1. mastic

Declension