morto

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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" 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.

• motor

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).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmorto]
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• Rhymes: -orto
• Hyphenation: mor‧to

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

1. death

   Antonym: vivo

• mortpuno (“death penalty”)

From Old Galician and Old 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.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmɔɾtʊ], (western) [ˈmoɾtʊ]

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

1. dead; deceased

   Synonym: defunto

2. (figurative) extenuated

morto m (plural mortos)

1. corpse
2. dead person

   Synonym: defunto

3. (nautical) kind of anchor

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

1. irregular masculine singular past participle of morrer

• morte

• “morto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “morto” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “morto” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “morto” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “morto” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔr.to/

morto (plural morti)

1. death, decease

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”).

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

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

1. (literally and figurative) dead

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

   Antonyms: vivente, vivo

   • early 14^th century, Dante, “Canto V”, in Inferno, lines 139–142:

     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, 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, “XII. L'infinito [The Infinite]”, in Canti‎, Bari: Einaudi, published 1917, lines 4–8, page 49:

     […] 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

• mezzo morto
• mortamente
• morto di fame

morto m (plural morti, feminine morta, diminutive morticìno, 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

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

1. past participle of morire; died

• morte
• morire

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

• môrto (obsolete)

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

• Rhymes: (Portugal, São Paulo) -oɾtu, (Rio de Janeiro) -oʁtu
• Hyphenation: mor‧to

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

1. dead (no longer living)

   Synonym: falecido

   Antonym: vivo

2. dead (completely inactive)
3. (informal) exhausted (extremely tired)

   Synonyms: moído, exausto, exaurido

4. (figurative) dead (not showing emotion)

   Synonyms: frio, gélido

Used with estar instead of ser.

For quotations using this term, see Citations:morto.

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

1. deceased

   Synonyms: defunto, finado

   Antonym: vivo

2. corpse (the body of a dead person)

   Synonyms: corpo, cadáver, defunto

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

• Dia dos Mortos
• morto-vivo

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

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