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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024-mort-, root. - -mort- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "death.'' This meaning is found in such words as: amortize, immortal, immortality, immortalize, morgue, mortal, mortality, mortgage.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024mort1 (môrt),USA pronunciation n. - Sport[Hunting.]the note played on a hunting horn signifying that the animal hunted has been killed.
- [Obs.]death.
- Latin mort- (stem of mors) death
- Middle French
- Middle English 1300–50
- Fisha three-year-old salmon.
- origin, originally uncertain 1520–30
- British Termslard.
- origin, originally uncertain 1600–10
- a male given name, form of Mortimer or Morton.
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