different between mortar vs pozzolana

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

• pozzuolana, puzzolana, puzzolano

Etymology

From Italian pozz(u)ollana, earth of Pozzuoli, a town near Naples, itself from Latin Puteoli, ultimately from the verb pute? (“stink”).

Noun

pozzolana (countable and uncountable, plural pozzolanas)

1. A type of volcanic ash used for mortar or for cement which sets under water. [from 17th c.]
   • 1962, WH Auden & Elizabeth Mayer, translating JW Goethe, Italian Journey, Penguin 1970, p. 450:

     Finally the street is strewn with pozzolana to prevent the horses from slipping on the smooth paving.

Related terms

• pozzolan
• pozzolanic

Translations

References

• The Concise Oxford Dictionary, 10th ed, p.1122.

Italian

Noun

pozzolana f (plural pozzolane)

1. (geology) pozzolana
2. pozzolan