# mort
## English
### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /mɔːt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* (US) IPA: /mɔɹt/
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)t

### Etymology 1

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

#### Noun

mort (countable and uncountable, plural morts)
* 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.
* 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.
* (UK, Scotland, dialect) The skin of a sheep or lamb that has died of disease.
* (card games) A variety of dummy whist for three players.
* (card games) The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.

##### Derived terms

* mort bell
* mort cloth
* mort stone

##### Related terms

* mort d'ancestor

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

mort (plural morts)
* 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.

### Etymology 3

Clipping of mortal.

#### Noun

mort (plural morts)
* (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)
* A three-year-old salmon.

### Etymology 5

UK circa 1560–1890. 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)
* (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 […]

##### Synonyms

* See Thesaurus:woman

##### Derived terms

* all-a-mort
* autem mort
* ben mort
* dimber mort
* gentry mort
* kinchin mort
* mort de chien
* mort dell
* mort wap-apace
* nazie mort
* queer mort
* rum mort
* strolling mort
* walking mort
* wapping mort

### References

* 1 2 3 Eric Partridge, The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang. Routledge, 1973. →ISBN.
* 1 2 3 Green, Jonathon (2012) Crooked Talk: Five Hundred Years of the Language of Crime, Random House, →ISBN, page 176
* 1 2 Albert Barrère and Charles G[odfrey] Leland, compilers and editors (1889–1890) “mort”, in A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant […], volume II (L–Z), Edinburgh: […] The Ballantyne Press, →OCLC.

### Anagrams

* mTOR

## Albanian
### Etymology

From Latin mors, mortem.

### Noun

mort m
* 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)
* dead

#### Derived terms

* murtami
* nimort

## Bourguignon
### Etymology 1

From Latin mortuus.

#### Adjective

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

### Etymology 2

From Latin mors.

#### Noun

mort f (plural morts)
* death

## Catalan
### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central, Balearic) [ˈmɔrt]
* IPA: (Valencia) [ˈmɔɾt]
* Rhymes: -ɔɾt

### Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Catalan mort, from Latin mortem.

#### Noun

mort f (uncountable)
* death

#### Noun

mort m (plural morts)
* (colloquial) a difficult problem one must face
* (nautical) mooring block

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Old Catalan mort, from Latin mortuus.

#### Adjective

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

#### Noun

mort m (plural morts)
* dead person

#### Participle

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

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔrt

### Verb

mort
* inflection of morren:
** second/third-person singular present indicative
** (archaic) plural imperative

### Anagrams

* trom

## French
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔʁ/
* Audio; “la mort”:(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔʁ
* Homophones: mord, mords, more, mores, mors, morts (general), maure, maures (one pronunciation)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Participle

mort (feminine morte, masculine plural morts, feminine plural mortes)
* past participle of mourir

#### Adjective

mort (feminine morte, masculine plural morts, feminine plural mortes)
* dead
    Le roi est mort.The king is dead.

##### Synonyms

* défunt

##### Derived terms

* angle mort
* bras mort
* comme un rat mort
* être un homme mort
* laisser pour mort
* langue morte
* lien mort
* marée de morte eau
* mémoire morte
* mer Morte
* mort de faim
* mort de rire
* mort et enterré
* mort ou vif
* morte la bête, mort le venin
* nature morte
* peser un âne mort
* poids mort
* point mort
* raide mort
* rester lettre morte
* temps mort
* ville mort

#### Noun

mort m (plural morts, feminine morte)
* dead person
    Synonym: défunt

##### Derived terms

* à réveiller un mort
* faire le mort
* fleur des morts
* tête de mort

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

mort f (plural morts)
* death

##### Derived terms

* à l’article de la mort
* à mort
* arrêt de mort
* aux portes de la mort
* camp de la mort
* combat à mort
* de la mort qui tue
* expérience de mort imminente
* femme au volant, mort au tournant
* il n’y a pas mort d’homme
* La Mort aux Juifs
* la mort dans l’âme
* lit de mort
* marche de la mort
* mettre à mort
* mise à mort
* mort aux cabris
* mort aux rats
* mort aux vaches
* mort cérébrale
* mort clinique
* mort subite
* mourir de sa belle mort
* peine de mort
* petite mort
* pulsion de mort
* rifler la mort
* se donner la mort
* signer son arrêt de mort
* trompette de la mort
* trouver la mort
* vipère de la mort

##### Related terms

* mourir
* morte
* mourant

##### Descendants

* → English: mort

### Further reading

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

## Ladin
### Etymology

From Latin mors, mortem.

### Noun

mort f (plural mortes)
* death

## Middle French
### Etymology

From Old French mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

### Noun

mort m or f (plural mors)
* death

#### Descendants

* French: mort
** → English: mort

## Norman
### Etymology 1

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

#### Adjective

mort m
* (Jersey) dead
    Lé rouai est mort, lé rouai vit!The king is dead, long live the king!

##### Synonyms

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

##### Derived terms

* La Mé Morte (“The Dead Sea”)
* mort-né (“stillborn”)
* morte-ieau (“neap-tide”)

### Etymology 2

From Old French mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

#### Noun

mort f (plural morts)
* (Jersey) death

##### Synonyms

* décès

##### Derived terms

* au pas d'la mort, au nom d'mort (“at death's door”)
* liet d'mort (“deathbed”)

##### Related terms

* mortalité (“mortality”)

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse murtr, murti.

### Noun

mort m (definite singular morten, indefinite plural morter, definite plural mortene)
* 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)
* the common roach, Rutilus rutilus

### References

* “mort” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Occitan
### Alternative forms

* mòrt

### Etymology

From Old Occitan mort, from Latin mors, mortem.

### Pronunciation

* Audio (Gascony):(file)

### Noun

mort f (plural morts)
* death

#### Related terms

* morir

## Old French
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈmɔɾt/
* Rhymes: -ɔrt

#### Verb

mort
* past participle of morir

#### Adjective

mort m (oblique and nominative feminine singular morte)
* dead
** c. 1150, Turoldus, La Chanson de Roland:Or veit Rollant que mort est sun amiNow Roland can see that his friend is dead

##### Declension
#### Descendants

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

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

mort oblique singular, f (oblique plural morz or mortz, nominative singular mort, nominative plural morz or mortz)
* death
** c. 1150, Thomas d'Angleterre, Le Roman de Tristan, Champion Classiques edition, →ISBN, page 104, line 1027:car sun chant signefie mortfor his song signifies death

##### Related terms

* morir

##### Descendants

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

## Picard
### Etymology

From Latin mors.

### Noun

mort f (plural morts)
* death

#### Related terms

* moérir

## Romanian
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [mort]
* Audio:(file)

### Adjective

mort m or n (feminine singular moartă, masculine plural morți, feminine and neuter plural moarte)
* dead
    Antonym: viu
    oamenii morți ― the dead people

#### Declension
### Noun

mort m (plural morți, feminine equivalent moartă)
* dead body, corpse

#### Related terms

* muri
* moarte
* morții mă-sii
* morții mă-tii
* morții tăi
* în morții mă-sii
* în morții mă-tii
* în morții tăi
* du-te-n morții mă-tii
* du-te-n morții tăi
* dă-te-n morții mă-tii
* dă-te-n morții tăi
* dă-o-n morții mă-sii
* mortăciune
* amorți

## Romansch
### Alternative forms

* miert (Sursilvan)

### Etymology

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

### Adjective

mort m (feminine singular morta, masculine plural morts, feminine plural mortas)
* (Rumantsch Grischun, Sutsilvan, Surmiran, Vallader) dead

#### Related terms

* murir

## Scottish Gaelic
### Noun

mort m (genitive singular moirt, plural moirt)
* Alternative form of murt

### Verb

mort (past mhort, future mortaidh, verbal noun mort or mortadh, past participle morte)
* Alternative form of murt

### References

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

## Serbo-Croatian
### Etymology

From German Mörtel.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /môrt/
* Hyphenation: mort

### Noun

mȍrt m (Cyrillic spelling мо̏рт)
* (regional) mortar (masonry)

#### Declension
### References

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

## Sudovian
### Etymology

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

### Verb

mort
* to die (Polish gloss: umrzeć)

#### Related terms

* mard

### References

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