# mortar
## English
### Alternative forms

* morter (archaic)

### Etymology

From Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortarium.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈmɔːtə(ɹ)/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)

### Noun

mortar (countable and uncountable, plural mortars)
* (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
** 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Fire Worship”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:The holy hearth! If any earthly and material thing, or rather a divine idea embodied in brick and mortar, might be supposed to possess the permanence of moral truth, it was this.
* (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
    Synonyms: mortar and pestle, pestle and mortar
* (countable, military, historical) A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
* (countable, military) A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories. [from 20th c.]
* (countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.

#### Derived terms

* brick and mortar
* brick-and-mortar
* bricks-and-mortar
* clicks and mortar
* diamond mortar
* life mortar
* lime mortar
* mortar and pestle
* mortarboard
* mortar hoe
* pestle and mortar
* trench mortar

#### Descendants

* → Indonesian: mortar

#### Translations
### Verb

mortar (third-person singular simple present mortars, present participle mortaring, simple past and past participle mortared)
* (transitive) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
* (transitive) To pound in a mortar.
* To fire a mortar (weapon).
* To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).
    The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.

### Related terms

* bricks and mortar

### See also

* gun
* howitzer

### Anagrams

* marrot

## Ido
### Etymology

Derived from morto +‎ -ar.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /mɔrˈtar/

### Verb

mortar (present mortas, past mortis, future mortos, conditional mortus, imperative mortez)
* (intransitive, literally and figuratively) to die, cease to live, depart this life
* (intransitive) to go out (of fire, lights, etc.)
* (intransitive) to come to an end (of movement)

#### Conjugation
## Indonesian
### Etymology

From English mortar, from Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortir.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈmɔr.tar]
* Hyphenation: mor‧tar

### Noun

mortar (plural mortar-mortar)
* mortar,
** a mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks
** 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, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Middle English
### Noun

mortar
* Alternative form of morter

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Noun

mortar m
* indefinite plural of mort

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mortārium (19th century).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /morˈtar/

### Noun

mortar n (uncountable)
* mortar (construction material)

#### Related terms

* mortier
* mojar

### Further reading

* mortar in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)