mortifer
See also: mortífer and mortifèr
Latin
FWOTD – 9 March 2021
Alternative forms
Etymology
From mors (“death”) + -fer (“-carrying”), literally “death-bearing”. Calque of Ancient Greek θανατηφόρος (thanatēphóros).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈmor.ti.fer/, [ˈmɔrt̪ɪfɛr]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈmor.ti.fer/, [ˈmɔrt̪ifer]
Adjective
mortifer (feminine mortifera, neuter mortiferum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)
- deadly, fatal, lethal
- Gospel of Mark, Vulgate, from 16:18
- Et sī mortiferum quid biberint nōn eōs nocēbit.
- And if they drink anything deadly it shall not harm them.
- Et sī mortiferum quid biberint nōn eōs nocēbit.
- Gospel of Mark, Vulgate, from 16:18
Declension
First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | mortifer | mortifera | mortiferum | mortiferī | mortiferae | mortifera | |
Genitive | mortiferī | mortiferae | mortiferī | mortiferōrum | mortiferārum | mortiferōrum | |
Dative | mortiferō | mortiferō | mortiferīs | ||||
Accusative | mortiferum | mortiferam | mortiferum | mortiferōs | mortiferās | mortifera | |
Ablative | mortiferō | mortiferā | mortiferō | mortiferīs | |||
Vocative | mortifer | mortifera | mortiferum | mortiferī | mortiferae | mortifera |
Descendants
References
- “mortifer”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “mortifer”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- mortifer in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to drain the cup of poison: poculum mortis (mortiferum) exhaurire (Cluent. 11. 31)
- to inflict a death-blow: plagam extremam or mortiferam infligere
- to inflict a mortal wound on some one: mortiferam plagam alicui infligere
- to be (seriously, mortally) wounded: vulnus (grave, mortiferum) accipere, excipere
- to drain the cup of poison: poculum mortis (mortiferum) exhaurire (Cluent. 11. 31)
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mortiferus or French mortifère.
Adjective
mortifer m or n (feminine singular mortiferă, masculine plural mortiferi, feminine and neuter plural mortifere)
Declension
Declension of mortifer
singular | plural | ||||||
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masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
nominative/ accusative | indefinite | mortifer | mortiferă | mortiferi | mortifere | ||
definite | mortiferul | mortifera | mortiferii | mortiferele | |||
genitive/ dative | indefinite | mortifer | mortifere | mortiferi | mortifere | ||
definite | mortiferului | mortiferei | mortiferilor | mortiferelor |
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