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Morto Derived Accusative Plural Terms Dead Null Wikt

The word "morto" in Esperanto means death, with its roots traceable to various Romance languages, ultimately stemming from the Latin "mors".

La vorto "morto" en Esperanto signifas morton, kaj ĝiaj radikoj troviĝas en pluraj latinidaj lingvoj, devenante de la latina "mors".

Frequency Rank of Word 288
Word morto
Meanings
    death
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/death
Pinyin null
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Example Sentences
Wiktionary Entry
mort
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mort#French
,
Italian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language
morte
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morte#Italian
,
Spanish
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language
muerte
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/muerte#Spanish
,
Portuguese
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_language
morte
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morte#Portuguese
,
Romanian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_language
moarte
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/moarte#Romanian
, from
Latin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin
mors
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mors#Latin
, mortis. All derived from
Proto-Indo-European
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language
*mr̥-to-
. Similar forms also exist in other
Indo-European
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-European_languages
languages, such as
Lithuanian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_language
mirtis
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mirtis#Lithuanian
,
Russian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_language
смерть
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%81%D0%BC%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82%D1%8C#Russian
(smertʹ),
Persian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persian_language
مرگ
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B1%DA%AF#Persian
(marg) and
Hindi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindi
मृत्यु
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%A4%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%AF%E0%A5%81#Hindi
(mŕtyu).

Pronunciation

  • IPA
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet
    (
    key
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Esperanto_pronunciation
    )
    : /ˈmor.to/
  • (
    file
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/File:LL-Q143_(epo)-Robin_van_der_Vliet-morto.wav
    )
  • Hyphenation: mor‧to
  • Rhymes:
    -orto
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Rhymes:Esperanto/orto

Noun

morto (accusative singular

morton
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morton#Esperanto
, plural
mortoj
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mortoj#Esperanto
, accusative plural
mortojn
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mortojn#Esperanto
)

  1. death
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/death
    Antonym:
    vivo
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/vivo#Esperanto

Derived terms

  • mortpuno
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mortpuno#Esperanto
    (death penalty)

Related terms

  • antaŭmorta
    (ante-mortem)
  • morta
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morta#Esperanto
    (dead)
  • mortigi
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mortigi#Esperanto
    (to kill)
  • mortinto
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mortinto#Esperanto
    (dead man)
  • morti
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morti#Esperanto
    (to die)
  • postmorta
    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/postmorta#Esperanto
    (posthumous; post-mortem)

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