# morir
## Catalan
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan morir, from Latin morīrī, variant of morī.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [muˈɾi]
* IPA: (Valencia) [moˈɾiɾ]
* Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

### Verb

morir (first-person singular present moro, first-person singular preterite morí, past participle mort); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/
* to die

#### Related terms

* mort

### Further reading

* “morir” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “morir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “morir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “morir” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## Franco-Provençal
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin morī(rī).

### Verb

morir (ORB, broad)
* to die
    Antonym: vivre

#### Conjugation
### References

* mourir in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
* morir in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

### Further information

* AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 75: “morire” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
* ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 882: “mourir” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mŏrdĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 126

## Italian
### Verb

morir (apocopated)
* Apocopic form of morire

## Ladin
### Alternative forms

* morì

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin morīrī, variant of morī.

### Verb

morir
* to die

#### Conjugation

* Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

## Ladino
### Verb

morir (Latin spelling, Hebrew spelling מוריר)
* Alternative form of murir

### References

* ↑ “morir”, in Trezoro de la Lengua Djudeoespanyola.

## Occitan
### Alternative forms

* mourir (Mistralian spelling)

### Etymology

Inherited from Old Occitan morir, from Latin morīrī, variant of morī.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /muˈɾi/
* Audio:(file)

### Verb

morir
* to die

#### Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

#### Related terms

* mort

## Old French
### Alternative forms

* murir

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin morīrī, variant of morī. The sense of "to kill" may have been back-formed from the Latin ancestor's deponent nature.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /muˈɾiɾ/

### Verb

morir
* (intransitive) to die
** c. 1250, Marie de France, Guigemar:Kar ne se volt laissier murirBecause he didn't want to let himself die
* (transitive, rare, takes avoir as an auxiliary) to kill
** 12th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:Se l'avés mort il m'en poise forment.If you have killed him, it will bother me greatly.

#### Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem muer distinct from the unstressed stem mor, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

#### Related terms

* mort

#### Descendants

* Middle French: mourir
** French: mourir
*** Haitian Creole: mouri
*** Louisiana Creole: mouri
* Norman: mouorir (Guernsey), mouothi (Jersey)
* Picard: moérir
* Walloon: mori

## Old Occitan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin morīrī, variant of morī.

### Verb

morir
* to die

#### Related terms

* mort

#### Descendants

* Occitan: morir

### References

* Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “mori”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 132

## Old Spanish
### Alternative forms

* murir

### Etymology

Inherited from Latin morīrī, variant of morī. Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese morrer, morer and Old French morir, murir.

### Verb

morir
* (intransitive) to die; to pass away (cease living)
    Antonym: bevir
** c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 54r:dixo ẏſaẏas a los menſageros q̃l embio el reẏ ezechias aſſi dizredes al nr̃o ſennor q̃ diz el criador Nõ temas delas menazas q̃ oiſt de los uaſſallos del reẏ de ſur. Afe yo trametre uiẽto ⁊ oyra tal palabra. por q̃stornara aſu tr̃a ⁊ ẏl fara morir aeſpada.Isaiah said the messengers sent to him by king Hezekiah, “You will tell our master that thus says the Creator, ‘Do not fear the threats you have heard from the servants of the king of the south. Lo, I will send wind and he will hear a rumor such that he will return to his land, and there he will be made to die by the sword.’”

#### Descendants

* Ladino: morir, murir, מוריר
* Spanish: morir

### References

* Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946) “morir”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 349

## Spanish
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Spanish murir, morir, from Latin morīrī, variant of morī. Cognate with Galician morrer, Ladino murir, and Portuguese morrer.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /moˈɾiɾ/ [moˈɾiɾ]
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -iɾ
* Syllabification: mo‧rir

### Verb

morir (first-person singular present muero, first-person singular preterite morí, past participle muerto)
* (intransitive, reflexive) to die
    Synonyms: estirar la pata, fallecer, morirse, palmar, petatearse
    Antonym: vivir
    La caballerosidad no ha muerto.Chivalry is not dead.

#### Usage notes

* The reflexive form of this verb, morirse, is more colloquial, while the non-reflexive form, morir, is more formal.
* Widely used figuratively, as in English:
** Me morí del aburrimiento ― I died of boredom
** Me morí del susto ― I died of fright

#### Conjugation

$^1$Mostly obsolete, now mainly used in legal language. $^2$Argentine and Uruguayan voseo prefers the tú form for the present subjunctive.
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.

#### Derived terms

* bicho malo nunca muere
* de casi no se muere nadie
* el lobo muere lobo
* la esperanza es la última que muere
* morir de hambre
* morir de risa
* morirse de risa
* por la boca muere el pez
* quien a hierro mata, a hierro muere

#### Related terms

* moribundo
* mortal
* muerte
* muerto

### Further reading

* “morir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10

## Venetan
### Etymology

Inherited from Latin morīrī, variant of morī.

### Verb

morir
* (intransitive) to die

#### Conjugation

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.