mortifer

• mortiferus

From mors (“death”) +‎ -fer (“-carrying”), literally “death-bearing”. Calque of Ancient Greek θανατηφόρος (thanatēphóros).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.ti.fer/, [ˈmɔrt̪ɪfɛr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.ti.fer/, [ˈmɔrt̪ifer]

mortifer (feminine mortifera, neuter mortiferum); first/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er)

1. 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.

First/second-declension adjective (nominative masculine singular in -er).

• Catalan: mortífer
• French: mortifère
• Italian: mortifero
• Occitan: mortifèr
• Portuguese: mortífero
• Spanish: mortífero

• “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
    

Borrowed from Latin mortiferus or French mortifère.

mortifer m or n (feminine singular mortiferă, masculine plural mortiferi, feminine and neuter plural mortifere)

1. lethal