morto

See also: môrto

English

Etymology

Clipping of mortified +‎ -o

Pronunciation

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Adjective

morto (comparative more morto, superlative most morto)

1. (Ireland, slang) Very embarrassed or embarrassing.
   • 2007 March 21, Kilian Doyle, "An iconic parade" The Irish Times (Dublin) Motoring p.3

     I was, to use the vernacular, bleedin' morto. My shame notwithstanding, the whole day was a blast.

   • 2013 February 21, Louise McSharry, “Robbie Williams’ most morto moments of all time”, in Daily Edge:

     Robbie’s had some pretty embarrassing moments over the years. What better time than now to take a stroll down memory lane? Here are his most morto moments.

   • 2013 May 20 "Early trouble" The Irish Times (Dublin) Sport p.2

     Yes, Dan left the game early because he "wanted to miss the traffic and get a kebab on the way home" - after which Coventry scored twice. Morto.

Anagrams

• motor

Esperanto

Etymology

From French mort, Italian morte, Spanish muerte, Portuguese morte, Romanian moarte, from Latin mors, mortis. All derived from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥-to-. Similar forms also exist in other Indo-European languages, such as Lithuanian mirtis, Russian смерть (smertʹ), Persian مرگ (marg) and Hindi मृत्यु (mŕtyu).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmorto]

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -orto
• Hyphenation: mor‧to

Noun

morto (accusative singular morton, plural mortoj, accusative plural mortojn)

1. death

   Antonym: vivo

Derived terms

• mortpuno (“death penalty”)
• mortdeziro (“death wish”)

Related terms

• antaŭmorta (“ante-mortem”)
• morta (“dead”)
• morti (“to die”)
• mortigi (“to kill”)
• mortinto (“dead man”)
• postmorta (“posthumous; post-mortem”)

 

Galician

A os mortos na Guerra Civil - To the Civil War dead

Etymology

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese morto, from Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuum, perfect active participle of morior (“I die”). Corresponds to Proto-Indo-European *mr̥twós, *mr̥tós (“dead, mortal”), *mr̥tó-, ultimately from *mer- (“to die”). Cognate with Portuguese morto and Spanish muerto.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔɾto/ [ˈmɔɾ.t̪ʊ]
  • Rhymes: -ɔɾto
• IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾto/ [ˈmoɾ.t̪ʊ]
  • Rhymes: -oɾto
• Hyphenation: mor‧to

Adjective

morto (feminine morta, masculine plural mortos, feminine plural mortas)

1. dead; deceased

   Synonym: defunto

2. (figurative) extenuated

Noun

morto m (plural mortos)

1. corpse
2. dead person

   Synonym: defunto

3. (nautical) kind of anchor

Participle

morto (feminine morta, masculine plural mortos, feminine plural mortas)

1. (irregular) past participle of morrer

Related terms

• morte

 

References

• Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “morto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “morto”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “morto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “morto”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
• Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “morto”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN

Ido

Etymology

Borrowed from Esperanto morto, English mortal, French mort, German Mortalität, Italian morte, Spanish muerte.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔr.to/

Noun

morto (plural morti)

1. death, decease

Derived terms

• depozeyo di mortinti (“morgue”)
• elektro-mortigar (“to electrocute”)
• esar balde mortonta (“to be at the point of death, at death’s door”)
• esar mortonta (“to be at the point of death, at death’s door”)
• expozeyo di mortinti (“morgue”)
• mortado (“mortality”)
• mortala (“death, mortal”)
• mortale vundita (“mortally wounded”)
• mortanto (“dying person, moribund person”)
• mortar naturale (“to die a natural death”)
• mortar ye la mondumo (“to be dead to the world”)
• mortar (“to die, cease to live, cease to be, depart this life; to go out; to come to an end”)
• mortemeso (“mortality”)
• morteskar (“to be dying, be on the point of death”)
• mortigala paleso (“deathly pallor”)
• mortiganta (“mortal, deadly: which causes death”)
• mortigar nemortiva (“to immortalize”)
• mortigar per elektro-shoko (“to electrocute”)
• mortigar (“to deprive of life; cause to die, kill, execute, put to death”)
• mortigisto (“executioner”)
• mortigiva (“mortal, deadly: which causes death”)
• mortigive paleso (“deathly pallor”)
• mortigo (“killing, execution”)
• mortinta (“dead, defunct”)
• mortintala domo (“mortuary”)
• mortiva (“mortal: subject to death”)
• mortiveso (“immortality”)
• mortiveso (“liability to death”)
• morto-puniso (“death penalty, capital punishment”)
• morto-punto (“point of death”)
• morto-statistiko (“mortality”)
• mortonto (“dying person, moribund person”)
• naske mortinta (“born dead stillborn”)
• nemortiva (“everlasting, immortal, undying”)
• nemortivo (“everlasting, immortal, undying”)
• senmortoza (“undying”)
• stone mortinta (“stone dead”)
• stono-mortigar (“to stone”)

 

Italian

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *mortus, from Classical Latin mortuus, from Proto-Italic *mortwos, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥twós, derived from the root *mer- (“to die; to disappear”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔr.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔrto
• Hyphenation: mòr‧to

• Audio:

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Adjective

morto (feminine morta, masculine plural morti, feminine plural morte)

1. (literal and figurative) dead

   Synonyms: (colloquial) crepato, deceduto, defunto, estinto, perito, (euphemistic) scomparso

   Antonyms: vivente, vivo

   • 1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto V”, in Inferno [Hell]‎^[1], lines 139–142; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Mentre che l’uno spirto questo disse, / l’altro piangëa; sì che di pietade / io venni men così com’ io morisse. / E caddi come corpo morto cade.

     And all the while one spirit uttered this, the other one did weep so, that, for pity, I swooned away as if I had been dying, and fell, even as a dead body falls.

   • 1807, Ugo Foscolo, Dei Sepolcri‎^[3], Molini, Landi e comp., published 1809, page 12:

     […] le madri / Balzan ne’ sonni esterrefatte, e tendono / Nude le braccia su l’amato capo / Del caro lor lattante onde nol desti, / Il gemer lungo di persona morta

     Mothers are shaken in their sleeps, shocked, and stretch their bare arms on their cherished baby’s beloved head, so that he's not awoken by the long wailing of a dead person

2. (by extension, colloquial) dead (experiencing pins and needles) (of a body part)
3. (figurative) past (of a time period)

   Synonyms: passato, trascorso

   • 1835, Giacomo Leopardi with Alessandro Donati, “XII. L'infinito [The Infinite]”, in Canti‎^[4], Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, page 49, lines 4–8:

     […] e mi sovvien l’eterno, / e le morte stagioni, e la presente / e viva, e il suon di lei.

     and I remember the eternal and the dead seasons, and the living present, and its sound

Derived terms

• mezzo morto
• mortamente
• morto di fame

Noun

morto m (plural morti, feminine morta, diminutive morticìno (“dead child”), pejorative (Roman) mortàccio)

1. dead man

   Synonym: defunto

2. corpse, dead body

   Synonyms: cadavere, corpo

3. (figurative) an inactive or idle person
4. (card games) a fourth, absent player
   1. (bridge) dummy

Participle

morto (feminine morta, masculine plural morti, feminine plural morte)

1. past participle of morire
   1. died
   2. (obsolete or Tuscan, transitive) killed, murdered
      • 1348, Giovanni Villani, “Libro secondo [Second book]”, in Nuova Cronica [New chronicle]‎^[5], published 1991, section 1:

        Cesere con sua oste discese al piano presso alla riva del fiume d’Arno, là dove Fiorino con sua gente era stato morto da’ Fiesolani, e in quello luogo fece cominciare ad edificare una città

        Caesar, with his army, descended towards the shores of the river Arno, where Fiorino had been killed along with his people by the people of Fiesole, and there he ordered a city to be built

      • 1349–1353, Giovanni Boccaccio, “Giornata seconda – Novella settima”, in Decameron; republished as Aldo Francesco Massera, editor, Il Decameron‎^[6], Bari: Laterza, 1927:

        Osbech, […] col re di Capadocia dopo alquanto tempo affrontatosi, combatté, e fu nella battaglia morto ed il suo esercito sconfitto e disperso.

        Osbech, after a long confrontation with the king of Cappadocia, fought, and was killed in the battle, and his army defeated and scattered.

      • 1840–1842, Alessandro Manzoni, chapter IV, in I promessi sposi‎^[7], Milan: Guglielmini e Redaelli, published in I promessi sposi - Storia della colonna infame:

        benchè l’omicidio fosse, a que’ tempi, cosa tanto comune, che gli orecchi d’ognuno erano avvezzi a sentirlo raccontare, e gli occhi a vederlo, pure l’impressione ch’egli ricevette dal veder l’uomo morto per lui, e l’uomo morto da lui, fu nuova e indicibile

        Even though murder was, at that time, common enough that everyone's ears and eyes were accustomed to hearing about it and seeing it, the shock he felt from the sight of the man murdered because of him, and the man murdered by him, was new and indescribable

Related terms

• morte
• morire

Further reading

• morto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Lombard

Adjective

morto m

1. (Old Lombard) dead (not living)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• môrto (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese morto, from Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuus, perfect active participle of morior (“to die”). Corresponds to Proto-Indo-European *mr̥twós, *mr̥tós (“dead, mortal”), *mr̥tó-, ultimately from *mer- (“to die”). Compare Galician morto and Spanish muerto.

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʁ.tu/ [ˈmoh.tu]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʁ.tu/ [ˈmoh.tu]
  • (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾ.tu/
  • (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʁ.tu/ [ˈmoχ.tu]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɻ.to/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾ.tu/

• (Porto) IPA^(key): [ˈmwɐɾ.tu]
• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾtu, (Brazil) -oʁtu
• Hyphenation: mor‧to

Adjective

morto (feminine morta, masculine plural mortos, feminine plural mortas, comparable, comparative mais morto, superlative o mais morto or mortíssimo, diminutive mortinho, metaphonic)

2. dead (no longer living)

   Synonym: falecido

   Antonym: vivo

4. dead (completely inactive)
6. (informal) exhausted (extremely tired)

   Synonyms: moído, exausto, exaurido

8. (figurative) dead (not showing emotion)

   Synonyms: frio, gélido

Usage notes

Used with estar instead of ser.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:morto.

Derived terms

• amortecer
• cerebralmente morto
• espaço morto
• Mar Morto
• morto de
• morto de fome
• morto e enterrado
• natureza morta
• nem morto
• noite morta
• peso morto
• ponto morto
• rei morto, rei posto

 

Related terms

• morrer
• mortal
• mortandade
• morte
• mortificar

 

Noun

morto m (plural mortos, feminine morta, feminine plural mortas, metaphonic)

2. deceased

   Synonyms: defunto, finado

   Antonym: vivo

4. corpse (the body of a dead person)

   Synonyms: corpo, cadáver, defunto

6. (card games) a number of cards set apart that can be picked up by the first player to play all his cards

Derived terms

• Dia dos Mortos
• morto-vivo

Participle

morto (short participle, feminine morta, masculine plural mortos, feminine plural mortas, metaphonic)

1. past participle of matar
2. past participle of morrer