immortality

immortality (countable and uncountable, plural immortalities)

/ˌɪmɔːˈtæləti/

/ˌɪmɔːɹˈtæləti/

From Middle English immortalitee, immortalite, from Old French immortalité, from Latin immortālitās.
Morphologically immortal + -ity.

خُلُود

condition of not being susceptible to death

In Greek mythology, Tithonus was granted immortality but not eternal youth.

In the little, as in the great things of life, are to be found the type and sign of our immortality. Every hope that looks forward is pledge of the hereafter to which it refers. Who rests content with the present? None. We have all deep within us a craving for the future.

1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Marriage Morning”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 201:

His one desire was to become the father of a man like himself, and it held him with a grip he only partially understood, for it was the first great desire, the first great passion of his life. Falling in love was a mere physical triviality, like warm sun or cool water, beside this divine hope of immortality: "I continue."

1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chapter 4

(religion, mythology, biology) The condition of being immortal.

The condition of being immortal.
Never dying


matar

pt-verb

matar (first-person singular present mato, first-person singular preterite matei, past participle matado, short past participle morto)

mato (first-person present singular)
matei (first-person preterite singular)
matado (participle past)
morto (participle past short-form)
matar (impersonal infinitive)
matar (first-person infinitive singular)
matares (infinitive second-person singular)
matar (infinitive singular third-person)
matarmos (first-person infinitive plural)
matardes (infinitive plural second-person)
matarem (infinitive plural third-person)
matando (gerund)
morto (masculine participle past short-form singular)
mortos (masculine participle past plural short-form)
morta (feminine participle past short-form singular)
mortas (feminine participle past plural short-form)
matado (long-form masculine participle past singular)
matados (long-form masculine participle past plural)
matada (feminine long-form participle past singular)
matadas (feminine long-form participle past plural)
mato (first-person indicative present singular)
matas (indicative present second-person singular)
mata (indicative present singular third-person)
matamos (first-person indicative plural present)
matais (indicative plural present second-person)
matam (indicative plural present third-person)
matava (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
matavas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
matava (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
matávamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
matáveis (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
matavam (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
matei (first-person indicative preterite singular)
mataste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
matou (indicative preterite singular third-person)
matamos (Brazil first-person indicative plural preterite)
matámos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
matastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
mataram (indicative plural preterite third-person)
matara (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
mataras (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
matara (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
matáramos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
matáreis (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
mataram (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
matarei (first-person future indicative singular)
matarás (future indicative second-person singular)
matará (future indicative singular third-person)
mataremos (first-person future indicative plural)
matareis (future indicative plural second-person)
matarão (future indicative plural third-person)
mataria (conditional first-person singular)
matarias (conditional second-person singular)
mataria (conditional singular third-person)
mataríamos (conditional first-person plural)
mataríeis (conditional plural second-person)
matariam (conditional plural third-person)
mate (first-person present singular subjunctive)
mates (present second-person singular subjunctive)
mate (present singular subjunctive third-person)
matemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
mateis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
matem (plural present subjunctive third-person)
matasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
matasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
matasse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
matássemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
matásseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
matassem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
matar (first-person future singular subjunctive)
matares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
matar (future singular subjunctive third-person)
matarmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
matardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
matarem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
mata (imperative second-person singular)
mate (imperative singular third-person)
matemos (first-person imperative plural)
matai (imperative plural second-person)
matem (imperative plural third-person)
não mates (imperative negative second-person singular)
não mate (imperative negative singular third-person)
não matemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não mateis (imperative negative plural second-person)
não matem (imperative negative plural third-person)
matar-se (impersonal infinitive)
matar-me (first-person infinitive singular)
matares-te (infinitive second-person singular)
matar-se (infinitive singular third-person)
matarmo-nos (first-person infinitive plural)
matardes-vos (infinitive plural second-person)
matarem-se (infinitive plural third-person)
matando-se (gerund)
matado (masculine participle past singular)
matados (masculine participle past plural)
matada (feminine participle past singular)
matadas (feminine participle past plural)
mato-me (first-person indicative present singular)
matas-te (indicative present second-person singular)
mata-se (indicative present singular third-person)
matamo-nos (first-person indicative plural present)
matais-vos (indicative plural present second-person)
matam-se (indicative plural present third-person)
matava-me (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
matavas-te (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
matava-se (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
matávamo-nos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
matáveis-vos (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
matavam-se (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
matei-me (first-person indicative preterite singular)
mataste-te (indicative preterite second-person singular)
matou-se (indicative preterite singular third-person)
matamo-nos (Brazil first-person indicative plural preterite)
matámo-nos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
matastes-vos (indicative plural preterite second-person)
mataram-se (indicative plural preterite third-person)
matara-me (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
mataras-te (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
matara-se (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
matáramo-nos (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
matáreis-vos (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
mataram-se (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
matar-me-ei (first-person future indicative singular)
matar-te-ás (future indicative second-person singular)
matar-se-á (future indicative singular third-person)
matar-nos-emos (first-person future indicative plural)
matar-vos-eis (future indicative plural second-person)
matar-se-ão (future indicative plural third-person)
matar-me-ia (conditional first-person singular)
matar-te-ias (conditional second-person singular)
matar-se-ia (conditional singular third-person)
matar-nos-íamos (conditional first-person plural)
matar-vos-íeis (conditional plural second-person)
matar-se-iam (conditional plural third-person)
me mate (first-person present singular subjunctive)
te mates (present second-person singular subjunctive)
se mate (present singular subjunctive third-person)
nos matemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
vos mateis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
se matem (plural present subjunctive third-person)
me matasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
te matasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
se matasse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
nos matássemos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
vos matásseis (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
se matassem (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
me matar (first-person future singular subjunctive)
te matares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
se matar (future singular subjunctive third-person)
nos matarmos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
vos matardes (future plural second-person subjunctive)
se matarem (future plural subjunctive third-person)
mata-te (imperative second-person singular)
mate-se (imperative singular third-person)
matemo-nos (first-person imperative plural)
matai-vos (imperative plural second-person)
matem-se (imperative plural third-person)
não te mates (imperative negative second-person singular)
não se mate (imperative negative singular third-person)
não nos matemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
não vos mateis (imperative negative plural second-person)
não se matem (imperative negative plural third-person)
mattar (alternative obsolete)
matá (alternative Brazil pronunciation-spelling)

From Old Galician-Portuguese matar, probably from Latin mactāre (through Vulgar Latin *mattāre). The development of -ct- would be irregular, however. Hence possibly derived from or influenced by Late Latin mattus (“drunk, intoxicated”), related to madidus. Another possibility is an influence by Arabic مَاتَ (māta, “to die”).
The short past participle is derived from Latin morīre, an unrelated verb that means "to die."

Hobbes matara o positivismo acerca da revolução.

Hobbes had killed the positivism surrounding the revolution.

(transitive) to kill (to write a story that conveys the death of)


matar

es-verb

matar (first-person singular present mato, first-person singular preterite maté, past participle matado)

mato (first-person present singular)
maté (first-person preterite singular)
matado (participle past)
matar (infinitive)
matando (gerund)
matado (masculine participle past singular)
matada (feminine participle past singular)
matados (masculine participle past plural)
matadas (feminine participle past plural)
mato (first-person indicative present singular)
matas (indicative informal present second-person singular)
matás (indicative informal present second-person singular vos-form)
mata (indicative present singular third-person)
matamos (first-person indicative plural present)
matáis (indicative plural present second-person)
matan (indicative plural present third-person)
mataba (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
matabas (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
mataba (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
matábamos (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
matabais (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
mataban (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
maté (first-person indicative preterite singular)
mataste (indicative preterite second-person singular)
mató (indicative preterite singular third-person)
matamos (first-person indicative plural preterite)
matasteis (indicative plural preterite second-person)
mataron (indicative plural preterite third-person)
mataré (first-person future indicative singular)
matarás (future indicative second-person singular)
matará (future indicative singular third-person)
mataremos (first-person future indicative plural)
mataréis (future indicative plural second-person)
matarán (future indicative plural third-person)
mataría (conditional first-person indicative singular)
matarías (conditional indicative second-person singular)
mataría (conditional indicative singular third-person)
mataríamos (conditional first-person indicative plural)
mataríais (conditional indicative plural second-person)
matarían (conditional indicative plural third-person)
mate (first-person present singular subjunctive)
mates (informal present second-person singular subjunctive)
matés (informal present second-person singular subjunctive vos-form)
mate (present singular subjunctive third-person)
matemos (first-person plural present subjunctive)
matéis (plural present second-person subjunctive)
maten (plural present subjunctive third-person)
matara (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
mataras (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
matara (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
matáramos (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
matarais (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
mataran (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
matase (first-person imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive)
matases (imperfect imperfect-se second-person singular subjunctive)
matase (imperfect imperfect-se singular subjunctive third-person)
matásemos (first-person imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive)
mataseis (imperfect imperfect-se plural second-person subjunctive)
matasen (imperfect imperfect-se plural subjunctive third-person)
matare (first-person future singular subjunctive)
matares (future second-person singular subjunctive)
matare (future singular subjunctive third-person)
matáremos (first-person future plural subjunctive)
matareis (future plural second-person subjunctive)
mataren (future plural subjunctive third-person)
mata (imperative informal second-person singular)
matá (imperative informal second-person singular vos-form)
mate (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
mate (imperative singular third-person)
matemos (first-person imperative plural)
matad (imperative plural second-person)
maten (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
maten (imperative plural third-person)
mates (imperative negative second-person singular)
mate (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
mate (imperative negative singular third-person)
matemos (first-person imperative negative plural)
matéis (imperative negative plural second-person)
maten (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
maten (imperative negative plural third-person)
matarme (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
matarte (combined-form dative infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
matarle (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
matarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
matarnos (combined-form dative infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
mataros (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
matarles (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
matarse (combined-form dative infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
matarme (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-singular)
matarte (accusative combined-form infinitive object-second-person object-singular)
matarlo (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
matarla (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
matarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-singular object-third-person)
matarnos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-first-person object-plural)
mataros (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-second-person)
matarlos (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
matarlas (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
matarse (accusative combined-form infinitive object-plural object-third-person)
matándome (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-singular)
matándote (combined-form dative gerund object-second-person object-singular)
matándole (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
matándose (combined-form dative gerund object-singular object-third-person)
matándonos (combined-form dative gerund object-first-person object-plural)
matándoos (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-second-person)
matándoles (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
matándose (combined-form dative gerund object-plural object-third-person)
matándome (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-singular)
matándote (accusative combined-form gerund object-second-person object-singular)
matándolo (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
matándola (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
matándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-singular object-third-person)
matándonos (accusative combined-form gerund object-first-person object-plural)
matándoos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-second-person)
matándolos (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
matándolas (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
matándose (accusative combined-form gerund object-plural object-third-person)
mátame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
mátate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
mátale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
mátanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
mátales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
mátame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
mátate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-tú)
mátalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
mátala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
mátanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-tú)
mátalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
mátalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-tú)
matame (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
matate (combined-form dative imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
matale (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
matanos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
matales (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
matame (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
matate (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-second-person object-singular second-person singular with-vos)
matalo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
matala (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
matanos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural second-person singular with-vos)
matalos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
matalas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person second-person singular with-vos)
máteme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
mátele (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
mátese (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
mátenos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
máteles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
máteme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular second-person singular)
mátelo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
mátela (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
mátese (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person second-person singular)
mátenos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural second-person singular)
mátelos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
mátelas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person second-person singular)
matémoste (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
matémosle (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
matémonos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
matémoos (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
matémosles (combined-form dative first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
matémoste (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-second-person object-singular plural)
matémoslo (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
matémosla (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-singular object-third-person plural)
matémonos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-first-person object-plural plural)
matémoos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-second-person plural)
matémoslos (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
matémoslas (accusative combined-form first-person imperative object-plural object-third-person plural)
matadme (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
matadle (combined-form dative imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
matadnos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
mataos (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
matadles (combined-form dative imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
matadme (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
matadlo (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
matadla (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
matadnos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
mataos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-second-person plural second-person)
matadlos (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
matadlas (accusative combined-form imperative informal object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
mátenme (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
mátenle (combined-form dative formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
mátennos (combined-form dative formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
mátenles (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
mátense (combined-form dative formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
mátenme (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-singular plural second-person)
mátenlo (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
mátenla (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-singular object-third-person plural second-person)
mátennos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-first-person object-plural plural second-person)
mátenlos (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
mátenlas (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
mátense (accusative combined-form formal imperative object-plural object-third-person plural second-person)
amatar (alternative obsolete)

Several possibilities:
* From Latin mactāre (through a Vulgar Latin *mattāre). Thus, a potential cognate with English mactate.
* From Vulgar Latin *mattāre, from Late Latin mattus (“drunk, intoxicated”), related to madidus. Compare Portuguese and Catalan matar, archaic Italian mattare.
* From Spanish mazar, in turn from maza (“mace, club”); compare Italian ammazzare (“to kill”).
* From Arabic مَاتَ (māta, “to die”), compare Persian مات (mât), the probable source of the second part of English checkmate.

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cada quien tiene su manera de matar pulgas

por un perro que maté, mataperros me llamaron

tanto peca el que mata a la vaca como el que le agarra la pata

(reflexive) to be killed, to meet one’s death


fantasma

pt-noun

fantasma m or f by sense or m (plural fantasmas)

fantasma m or f by sense or (canonical masculine)
fantasmas (plural)
phantasma (alternative obsolete)

Learned borrowing from Latin phantasma (“apparition, specter”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “to make visible”). Doublet of abantesma.


apoptosis

en-noun

apoptosis (countable and uncountable, plural apoptoses)

From Ancient Greek ἀπόπτωσις (apóptōsis, “a falling off”), from ἀπό (apó, “away from”) + πτῶσις (ptôsis, “falling”).

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The term apoptosis is proposed for a hitherto little recognized mechanism of controlled cell deletion, which appears to play a complementary but opposite role to mitosis in the regulation of animal cell populations.

1972, J. F. R. Kerr, A. H. Wyllie, A. R. Currie, “Apoptosis: A Basic Biological Phenomenon with Wide-ranging Implications in Tissue Kinetics”, in British journal of cancer, volume 26, →DOI:

Indeed, so important is apoptosis that it is gradually becoming clear that almost all therapeutic cancer treatment works only because it induces apoptosis by alerting p53 and its colleagues.

1999, Matt Ridley, Genome, Harper Perennial, published 2004, page 238:

Apoptosis is routine in developmental processes such as the removal of webbing between fingers in humans, the loss of tadpole tails in amphibians, and insect metamorphosis.

2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 74:

(biology, cytology) A process of programmed cell death by which cells undergo an ordered sequence of events which leads to death of the cell, as occurs during growth and development of the organism, as a part of normal cell aging, or as a response to cellular injury.


behead

en-verb

behead (third-person singular simple present beheads, present participle beheading, simple past and past participle beheaded)

beheads (present singular third-person)
beheading (participle present)
beheaded (participle past)
beheaded (past)

From Middle English beheden, bihefden, biheveden, from Old English behēafdian (“to behead”), equivalent to be- (“off, away”) + head.

(transitive) To deliberately remove the head of; to cut off (someone's) head.


necropsy

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Anatomy theory led to morbid anatomy in necropsy studies pursued by, among others, Johann Wepfer (1620–95) and Théophile Bonet (1620–89), both Swiss.

1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 255:

During the necropsy, he pored carefully through the body, combing the tissues and organs for signs of an abscess or wound.

2011, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of all Maladies, Fourth Estate, page 13:

(medicine) The pathological examination of a corpse, particularly to determine cause of death.


seppuku

seppuku (ritual Japanese suicide by disembowelment)


mors

la-noun

mors f (genitive mortis); third declension

mortis (genitive)
mors (nominative singular)
mortēs (nominative plural)
mortis (genitive singular)
mortium (genitive plural)
mortī (dative singular)
mortibus (dative plural)
mortem (accusative singular)
mortēs (accusative plural)
mortīs (accusative plural)
morte (ablative singular)
mortibus (ablative plural)
mors (singular vocative)
mortēs (plural vocative)

Insular Romance:

Sardinian: molte, morte, morti

Balkano-Romance:

Aromanian: moarti

Romanian: moarte

Italo-Dalmatian:

Dalmatian: muart

Istriot: muorto

Italian: morte

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Judeo-Italian: מוֹרְטַה (morəṭah /morta/)

Neapolitan: morte

Sicilian: morti, muorti

Venetan: mòrt, mòrte

Rhaeto-Romance:

Friulian: muart

Ladin: mort

Gallo-Italic:

Piedmontese: mòrt

Gallo-Romance:

Catalan: mort

Occitan: mort

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Old French: mort
Middle French: mort
French: mort
→ English: mort
Picard: mort
Norman: mort (Jersey)
Walloon: moirt

Ibero-Romance:

Aragonese: muerte

Old Galician-Portuguese: morte

Galician: morte

Portuguese: morte

Old Leonese: morte

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Asturian: muerte, muörti (Cabrales), morte (obsolete)

Leonese: muerte

Mirandese: muorte

Extremaduran: muerti

Spanish: muerte

Borrowed:

→ Albanian: mort

→ Norwegian Bokmål: mors

From Proto-Italic *mortis, from Proto-Indo-European *mértis (“death”), from *mer- (“to die”). Related to morior (“I die”).

Nam quia nec fātō, meritā nec morte perībat, ….

For since [Dido] was perishing neither by fate, nor by a death she deserved, ….

Ad mortem festinamus: / peccare desistamus.

1399, anonymous, Llibre Vermell de Montserrat

We hasten unto death: / let us refrain from sinning.


mors

mors n (definite singular morset, indefinite plural mors, definite plural morsa or morsene)

morset (definite singular)
mors (indefinite plural)
morsa (definite plural)
morsene (definite plural)

Possibly a borrowing from Latin mors (“death”).


shuffle off this mortal coil

en-verb

shuffle off this mortal coil (third-person singular simple present shuffles off this mortal coil, present participle shuffling off this mortal coil, simple past and past participle shuffled off this mortal coil)

shuffles off this mortal coil (present singular third-person)
shuffling off this mortal coil (participle present)
shuffled off this mortal coil (participle past)
shuffled off this mortal coil (past)

From Hamlet by William Shakespeare, see mortal coil.

For in that ſleepe of death, what dreames may come, / When we haue ſhuffel'd off this mortall coile, / Muſt giue vs pawſe.

c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], page 265, column 2:

But when you and I shuffle off this mortal coil, formal remembrances won’t be the only way we are remembered.

2011 April 19, Sumit Paul-Choudhury, “Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul”, in NewScientist:

Handsome, with a Freud-like beard and piercing eyes, it was also said that he had perfected the death stare. Whenever he required the skeleton of some exotic beast to compare with his fossil bones, he would visit Basel Zoo and stare at the appropriate animal, which would soon thereafter shuffle off its mortal coil.

2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: A Natural History, page 81:

(euphemistic, idiomatic) To die; to divest oneself of one's mortal body.


amort

From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”) reinterpreted as all amort.

der

How fares my Kate? What, sweeting, all amort?

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:

How nowe fellowe Franticke, what all a mort? Doth this sadnes become thy madnes?

c. 1590 (date written), G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. […], London: […] Iohn Danter, for Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, […], published 1595, →OCLC, [lines 3-5]:

What, all amort, Signior, no Courage left?

1737, Susanna Centlivre, The Perjur’d Husband, London: W. Feales, act IV, scene 2, page 56:

The hallow'd hour was near at hand: she sighs / Amid the timbrels, and the throng'd resort / Of whisperers in anger, or in sport; / 'Mid looks of love, defiance, hate, and scorn, / Hoodwink'd with faery fancy; all amort, / Save to St. Agnes and her lambs unshorn, / And all the bliss to be before to-morrow morn.

1819, John Keats, “The Eve of St. Agnes”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], published 1820, →OCLC, stanza VIII, page 87:

Here repose houris, dreamlike fair;
Eyes half amort by amorous care;
Marvels of flesh, wonders of hair!

1890, Francis Saltus Saltus, “The Harem”, in Shadows and Ideals, Buffalo: Charles Wells Moulton, page 338:

(archaic, literary) As if dead; depressed


mort

Inherited from Old Catalan mort, from Latin mortem.


mort

→ English: mort

Inherited from Middle French mort, from Old French mort, from Latin mors.


mort

ro-noun

mort m (plural morți, feminine equivalent moartă)

morți (plural)
equivalent moartă (feminine)
mort (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
mortul (accusative definite nominative singular)
morți (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
morții (accusative definite nominative plural)
mort (indefinite singular)
mortului (definite singular)
morți (indefinite plural)
morților (definite plural)
mortule (singular vocative)
morților (plural vocative)

Inherited from Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuus.


decease

en-noun

decease (countable and uncountable, plural deceases)

From Old French deces (Modern French décès), from Latin dēcessus (“departure”).

So should that beauty which you hold in lease
Find no determination: then you were
Yourself again after yourself's decease […]

1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 13”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease.

1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

رحل عن الحياة

departure, especially departure from this life; death


demise

demise (countable and uncountable, plural demises)

From Middle English demyse, dimise, dimisse, dymyse, from Middle French démise, the feminine singular past participle of démettre (“to put down, relinquish”); from Latin dēmissa, feminine singular of perfect passive participle of dēmittō. The "death" and "end" senses derive by way of euphemism from the legal sense, as a person's death was a common way that the legal demise could be accomplished.
The verb is from Middle English dimisen, from the noun.

Earth looked her loveliest to receive my sweet sister's gentle dust; but all was harsh and sullen as her own nature when Lady Avonleigh's haughty ashes returned to their original element. Immediately after her demise, her son went abroad, and I accompanied him.

1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 124:


fatal

en-adj

fatal (comparative more fatal, superlative most fatal)

more fatal (comparative)
most fatal (superlative)

From Middle French fatal, from Latin fātālis (“fatal”).

a fatal wound; a fatal disease; that fatal day; a fatal mistake

Author Rita Mae Brown consistently strings together short comical movie clips which may be fine for screenplays but fatal in novels. Unfortunately, Toder chooses to imitate this model and her story suffers.

1980 December 6, Cindy Rizzo, “Jewish, Lesbian, Feminist, Psychologist, Author--All of the above and more”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 20, page 9:

Surprisingly, this analysis revealed that acute exposure to solvent vapors at concentrations below those associated with long-term effects appears to increase the risk of a fatal automobile accident. Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.

2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:

For this reason, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that spinach be cooked at 160º for 15 seconds, which kills potentially fatal bacteria.

2021 July 1, Gregory McNamee, “Does spinach make you strong? Ask Popeye – and science”, in CNN:


fatality

[feɪ̯ˈtʰælɪɾi]

From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal + -ity.


lethal

lethal (comparative more lethal, superlative most lethal)

more lethal (comparative)
most lethal (superlative)

Learned borrowing from Latin lētālis (“deadly, mortal, fatal”), improperly written lēthālis, from lētum (“death”), improperly written as lēthum, from a supposed connection with Ancient Greek λήθη (lḗthē, “oblivion, forgetfulness”).

ncog

Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.

2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:

Of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal.

مُمِيت

of, pertaining to, or causing death; deadly; mortal; fatal


lethal

(genetics) An allele that causes the death of the organism that carries it.


predecease

‘Private: for the hands of J. G. Utterson alone and in case of his predecease to be destroyed unread,’ so it was emphatically superscribed; and the lawyer to behold the contents.

1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Remarkable Incident of Doctor Lanyon”, in Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, pages 59–60:

The death of one person or thing before another.


holocaust

The noun is derived from Middle English holocaust (“burnt offering”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman holocauste, Old French holocauste, olocauste (modern French holocaust), from Late Latin holocaustum, from Ancient Greek ὁλόκαυστον (holókauston), the neuter form of ὁλόκαυστος (holókaustos, “wholly burnt”), from ὅλος (hólos, “entire, whole”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *solh₂- (“whole”)) + καυστός (kaustós, “burnt”) (from καίω (kaíō, “to burn, burn up”); further etymology uncertain, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂w-).
The verb is derived from the noun. As regards verb sense 3 (“to subject (a group of people) to a holocaust”), compare the use of genocide as a verb.

ref

From Gerard Hoet (1728) Figures de la Bible, The Hague: Chez Pierre de Hondt, →OCLC.

inh

Alternative letter-case form of Holocaust (“the systematic mass murder (democide or genocide) of Jews (and, more broadly, of disabled people, homosexuals, Romanis, Slavs, and others) perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II”); hence, the state-sponsored mass murder of a particular group of people in society.


macabre

en-adj

macabre (comparative more macabre, superlative most macabre)

more macabre (comparative)
most macabre (superlative)

/ˌməˈkɑː.bɹə/

/ˌməˈkɑ.bɹə/

Borrowed from French macabre, whose etymology is uncertain. Possibly from the term danse macabre, most commonly believed to be from corruption of the biblical name Maccabees; compare Latin Chorea Machabaeorum.
Another theory derives the French term (through Spanish macabro) from Arabic مَقَابِر (maqābir, “cemeteries”), plural of مَقْبَرَة (maqbara) or مَقْبُرَة (maqbura).

There are four fundamental figures. One is a man measuring and comparing his world[…] In front of him is a macabre figure, a cadaver ready to be dissected. This symbolizes man serving mankind. The third figure is the scientist, the man who makes use of the information gathered in the first two fields of mensurable science.

1941, George C. Booth, Mexico's School-made Society, page 106:


Hades

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Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek ᾍδης (Hāídēs).

lbor

(Greek mythology) The underworld, the domain of Hades, by transference from its god.

In the Septuagint Bible, the Greek translation of Sheol.

(specifically, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) Hell as a waiting place for damned souls before the Last Judgement, after which they may be cast in Gehenna.


Sheol

Borrowed from Hebrew שְׁאוֹל, שְׁאֹל (sheól, “abode of the dead, underworld, netherworld, etc.”).

bor

Hebrew שְׁאוֹל

(Old Testament) The realm of the dead, the common grave of mankind, Hell. In older English translations of the Bible, notably the Authorized Version or King James Bible, this word sheol is translated inconsistently and variously as grave (31 times), pit (3 times) or hell (31 times: e.g., De. 32:22; 2Sa. 22:6; Job 11:8; Ps. 9:17).


kat

katův (adjective possessive)
kat (nominative singular)
kati (nominative plural)
katové (nominative plural)
kata (genitive singular)
katů (genitive plural)
katovi (dative singular)
katu (dative singular)
katům (dative plural)
kata (accusative singular)
katy (accusative plural)
kate (singular vocative)
kati (plural vocative)
katové (plural vocative)
katovi (locative singular)
katu (locative singular)
katech (locative plural)
katem (instrumental singular)
katy (instrumental plural)


kat

sk-noun

kat m pers (relational adjective katovský)

katovský (adjective relational)
singular
plural
nominative
kat
kati
genitive
kata
katov
dative
katovi
katom
accusative
locative
katoch
instrumental
katmi

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *katъ. Cognates include Polish kat, Czech kat, Lower Sorbian kat, and Upper Sorbian kat.


necromancy

en-noun

necromancy (countable and uncountable, plural necromancies)

necromancies (plural)
necyomancy (alternative)
egromancy (alternative)

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Circa 1300, from Middle English nigromancye, from Old French nigromancie, from Medieval Latin nigromantia, from Latin necromantia, from Ancient Greek νεκρομαντεία (nekromanteía), νεκρός (nekrós, “dead”) + μαντεία (manteía, “divination”). Medieval Latin spelling, incorporating niger (“black”), influenced by the notion of black art. Modern spelling adopted in mid-1500s. By surface analysis, necro- + -mancy.

der

νεκρομαντεία

And for to make this treatise the more pleasaunt and facill, I have put it in forme of a Dialogue, which I have diuided into three bookes: The first speaking of Magie in general, and Necromancie in special.

1597, King James Daemonologie, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

And in one word for all, Nagomancy, or Necromancy; by inspecting, consulting, and divining by, with, or from the dead.

1652, Gaule The Magastromancer, (Please provide the book title or journal name):

1867 E. Rogers, quoted in K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic
the Devil did often tempt me to study necromancy and nigromancy and to make use of magic, and to make a league with him...

There is no doubt..that necromancy is the touch-stone of occultism...


dood

From Dutch dood, from Middle Dutch dôot, from Old Dutch dōth, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz.


dood

Afrikaans: dood

Berbice Creole Dutch: doti

Negerhollands: dood, dod, doot

Skepi Creole Dutch: dut, doot

From Middle Dutch dôot, doet, from Old Dutch dōth, dōt, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz. Compare West Frisian dead, German Tod, English death, Danish død.


euthanize

en-verb

euthanize (third-person singular simple present euthanizes, present participle euthanizing, simple past and past participle euthanized)

euthanizes (present singular third-person)
euthanizing (participle present)
euthanized (participle past)
euthanized (past)
euthanise (alternative)
euth (alternative)
euthanase (alternative)
euthanaze (alternative)

John decided to euthanize his dying dog.

A terminally ill minor has become the first child to be euthanized in Belgium since age restrictions were lifted in the country two years ago.

2016, Chandrika Narayan, First child dies by euthanasia in Belgium, CNN:

(transitive) To carry out euthanasia on (a person or animal).

aflive

submit (a person or an animal) to euthanasia


euthanasia

en-noun

euthanasia (usually uncountable, plural euthanasias)

euthanasias (plural)
euthanasy (alternative archaic)

→ Japanese: ユーサネイジア (yūsaneijia)

/juːθəˈneɪʒə/

First attested in 1606, from Ancient Greek εὐθανασία (euthanasía), from εὐ- (eu-, “good”) + θάνατος (thánatos, “death”)

vdekje e lehtë

practice of killing a human being or animal

It would in time, it is to be hoped, effect a quiet euthanasia of the heresies of bigotry and fanaticism which have so long triumphed over human reason, and so generally and deeply afflicted mankind; but this work is to be begun by winnowing the grain from the chaff of the historians of his life.

1819 October 31, Thomas Jefferson, Letter To William Short, Monticello:

Had they understood their place, and what to do in it, this French Revolution, which went forth explosively in years and in months, might have spread itself over generations; and not a torture-death but a quiet euthanasia have been provided for many things.

1837, Thomas Carlyle, “Kings and Emigrants”, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book V (Parliament First):

This purely painless process, this descent by oblivious trance into oblivion, this natural physical death, is the true euthanasia; and it is the duty of those we call physicians to secure for man such good health as shall bear him in activity and happiness onward in his course to this goal. For euthanasia, though it be open to every one born of every race, is not to be had by any save through obedience to those laws which it is the mission of the physician to learn, to teach, and to enforce. Euthanasia is the sequel of health, the happy death engrafted on the perfect life.

1876, Natural Euthanasia: Popular Science Monthly, volume 8:

For myself I could hold it in my account with God to find such an euthanasia for you, even at this moment if it were best.

1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, →OCLC:

(obsolete) An easy death, or the means to bring about such a death.


Kreuzigung

de-noun

Kreuzigung f (genitive Kreuzigung, plural Kreuzigungen)

Kreuzigung (genitive)
Kreuzigungen (plural)
Kreuzigung (nominative singular)
Kreuzigungen (definite nominative plural)
Kreuzigung (genitive singular)
Kreuzigungen (definite genitive plural)
Kreuzigung (dative singular)
Kreuzigungen (dative definite plural)
Kreuzigung (accusative singular)
Kreuzigungen (accusative definite plural)


morire

Et sachiez que Jehans vesqui quatre-vint dis-nuef anz; lors entra il en sa sepulture, et se coucha touz vis autressi comme en un lit

late 13ᵗʰ century [1260s], “Di santo Giovanni apostolo e vangelista [Of saint John, apostle and evangelist]” (chapter 7), Libro II [Book 2], in anonymous translator, Il tesoro [The treasure], translation of Livres dou tresor [Book of the treasure] by Brunetto Latini (in Old French); collected in Luigi Gaiter, editor, Il tesoro di Brunetto Latini, volume 1, Bologna: Romagnoli, 1877, page 249:

And know that he lived ninety-nine years. And, when he came to death, he entered the grave alive. And he laid himself there as if on a bed.

L’animo mio, per disdegnoso gusto,
credendo col morir fuggir disdegno,
ingiusto fece me contra me giusto.

1300s–1310s, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XIII”, in Inferno [Hell], lines 70–72; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

My soul, with contemptuous desire, believing to escape scorn through death, made me—a just one—unjust against myself.


deuil

fr-noun

deuil m (countable and uncountable, plural deuils)

Alteration of Old French duel, plural dueus (possibly influenced by analogy to œil and its plural), which probably came from Late Latin dolus, a derivative of Latin dolor (“pain”), or possibly from a Vulgar Latin *dolium, from cordolium.


perish

en-verb

perish (third-person singular simple present perishes, present participle perishing, simple past and past participle perished)

perishes (present singular third-person)
perishing (participle present)
perished (participle past)
perished (past)

From Middle English perishen, borrowed from Old French perir (via the stem periss- used in various conjugations), from Latin perīre (“pass away, perish”), from per (“through”) + īre (“pass, go”).

When it goeth well with the righteous, the citie reioyceth: and when the wicked perish, there is shouting.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 11:10:

[…]the ship struck upon a sand, and […] the sea broke over her in such a manner that we expected we should all have perished immediately; and we were immediately driven into our close quarters, to shelter us from the very foam and spray of the sea.

1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC:

(intransitive) To die; to cease to live.


muri

ro-verb

a muri (third-person singular present moare, past participle murit, third-person subjunctive moară) 4th conjugation

a muri 4th conjugation (canonical)
moare (present singular third-person)
murit (participle past)
moară (subjunctive third-person)
a muri (infinitive)
murind (gerund)
murit (participle past)
mor (first-person indicative present singular)
mori (indicative present second-person singular)
moare (indicative present singular third-person)
murim (first-person indicative plural present)
muriți (indicative plural present second-person)
mor (indicative plural present third-person)
muream (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
mureai (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
murea (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
muream (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
mureați (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
mureau (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
murii (first-person indicative perfect singular)
muriși (indicative perfect second-person singular)
muri (indicative perfect singular third-person)
murirăm (first-person indicative perfect plural)
murirăți (indicative perfect plural second-person)
muriră (indicative perfect plural third-person)
murisem (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
muriseși (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
murise (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
muriserăm (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
muriserăți (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
muriseră (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
să mor (first-person present singular subjunctive)
să mori (present second-person singular subjunctive)
să moară (present singular subjunctive third-person)
să murim (first-person plural present subjunctive)
să muriți (plural present second-person subjunctive)
să moară (plural present subjunctive third-person)
mori (imperative second-person singular)
muriți (imperative plural second-person)
nu muri (imperative negative second-person singular)
nu muriți (imperative negative plural second-person)

Inherited from Latin morīrī, variant of morī. Compare Aromanian mor.

Nu credeam să-nvăț a muri vrodată; / Pururi tânăr, înfășurat în manta-mi, / Ochii mei nălțam visători la steaua / Singurătății.

1883, Mihai Eminescu, Odă (în metru antic):

Didn't believe I'd ever learn to die; / Ever young, veiled in my toga, / My dreamy eyes I always raised to the star / Of solitude.


deicide

en-noun

deicide (countable and uncountable, plural deicides)


assassination

The assassination of the king occurred at night.

Liu's agents pursued him and he escaped assassination only by throwing his clothing away by the Chʻien-tʻang River near Hangchow, thus suggesting suicide.

1963, “Introduction”, in Wing-tsit Chan, transl., Instructions for Practical Living and Other Neo-Confucian Writings by Wang Yang-ming, Columbia University Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, page xxiv:

The murder of a person, especially for political reasons or for personal gain.


moribund

/ˈmɔːɹɪbʌnd/

These moribund shapes were free as air—and nearly as thin.

1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 206, column 2:

Approaching death; about to die; dying; expiring.


deceased

From decease + -ed, from Middle English deceas via Old French [Term?], from Latin dēcessus (“departure”), equivalent to dēced-, variation of dēcēdō, dēcēdere (“to go away”).

1969, Monty Python, Dead Parrot Sketch
That parrot is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.

Publicity handouts from Dick's long-deceased record label would have us believe that he was born in Cleveland in 1952.

1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 272:

(qualifier, postposition) мәрхүм (mərxüm)


uccidere

it-verb

uccìdere (first-person singular present uccìdo, first-person singular past historic uccìsi, past participle uccìso, auxiliary avére)

uccìdere (canonical)
uccìdo (first-person present singular)
uccìsi (first-person historic past singular)
uccìso (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
uccìdere (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
uccidèndo (gerund)
uccidènte (participle present)
uccìso (participle past)
uccìdo (first-person indicative present singular)
uccìdi (indicative present second-person singular)
uccìde (indicative present singular third-person)
uccidiàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
uccidéte (indicative plural present second-person)
uccìdono (indicative plural present third-person)
uccidévo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
uccidévi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
uccidéva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
uccidevàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
uccidevàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
uccidévano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
uccìsi (first-person historic indicative past singular)
uccidésti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
uccìse (historic indicative past singular third-person)
uccidémmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
uccidéste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
uccìsero (historic indicative past plural third-person)
ucciderò (first-person future indicative singular)
ucciderài (future indicative second-person singular)
ucciderà (future indicative singular third-person)
ucciderémo (first-person future indicative plural)
uccideréte (future indicative plural second-person)
ucciderànno (future indicative plural third-person)
ucciderèi (conditional first-person singular)
ucciderésti (conditional second-person singular)
ucciderèbbe (conditional singular third-person)
ucciderébbe (conditional singular third-person)
ucciderémmo (conditional first-person plural)
uccideréste (conditional plural second-person)
ucciderèbbero (conditional plural third-person)
ucciderébbero (conditional plural third-person)
uccìda (first-person present singular subjunctive)
uccìda (present second-person singular subjunctive)
uccìda (present singular subjunctive third-person)
uccidiàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
uccidiàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
uccìdano (plural present subjunctive third-person)
uccidéssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
uccidéssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
uccidésse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
uccidéssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
uccidéste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
uccidéssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
uccìdi (imperative second-person singular)
uccìda (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
uccidiàmo (first-person imperative plural)
uccidéte (imperative plural second-person)
uccìdano (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
uccìdere (imperative negative second-person singular)
uccìda (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
uccidiàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
uccidéte (imperative negative plural second-person)
uccìdano (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

From Old Italian occidere, from Latin occīdō (“to kill, slay”). Compare Romanian ucide.

il fumo uccide


asphyxia

en-noun

asphyxia (countable and uncountable, plural asphyxias)

Learned borrowing from New Latin asphyxia, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀσφυξία (asphuxía, “stopping of the pulse”).

der

Hypoxaemia [...is] a deficient oxygenation of the blood; asphyxia from defective oxygenation of the blood.

1895, Robley Dunglison, Richard J. Dunglison, A Dictionary of Medical Science containing a full explanation of the various subjects and terms of anatomy, physiology, medical chemistry, pharmacy, pharmacology, therapeutics, medicine, hygiene, dietetics, pathology, bacteriology, surgery, ophthalmology, otology, laryngology, dermatology, gynecology, obstetrics, pediatrics, medical jurisprudence, dentistry, etc. 21 edition:

(medicine, obsolete) A condition in which an extreme decrease in the concentration of oxygen in the body leads to loss of consciousness or death. Replaced in the mid-20th century by the more specific terms anoxia, hypoxia, hypoxemia and hypercapnia.

asfiksi

condition with extreme decrease of oxygen and increase of carbon dioxide


necrosis

en-noun

necrosis (countable and uncountable, plural necroses)

From Ancient Greek νέκρωσις (nékrōsis), equivalent to necro- + -osis.

Usually gangrene will follow necrosis unless the dead tissue is resected.

These included multilobular consolidation with histiological lesions of bronchiolitis with epithelial necrosis and syncytia.

2015 November 17, “Single Pathogen Challenge with Agents of the Bovine Respiratory Disease Complex”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:

the interruption of blood supply
ischemia

(pathology) The localized death of cells or tissues through injury, disease, or the interruption of blood supply.


dybbuk

dybbuks (plural)
dybbukim (plural)
dibbuk (alternative)

From Yiddish דיבוק (dibek), from Hebrew דבק (dovek, “cling”).

(mythology, Judaism) A malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person.


bani

non-decl-blank-full

bani

bani (indefinite nominative singular)
baninn (definite nominative singular)
banar (indefinite nominative plural)
banarnir (definite nominative plural)
bana (accusative indefinite singular)
banann (accusative definite singular)
bana (accusative indefinite plural)
banana (accusative definite plural)
bana (dative indefinite singular)
bananum (dative definite singular)
bǫnum (dative indefinite plural)
bǫnunum (dative definite plural)
bana (genitive indefinite singular)
banans (definite genitive singular)
bana (genitive indefinite plural)
bananna (definite genitive plural)

Icelandic: bani

Faroese: bani

Norn: bani

Norwegian Nynorsk: bane

Old Swedish: bani

Swedish: bane

Old Danish: banæ

Danish: bane

Norwegian Bokmål: bane


versterben

de-verb

versterben (class 3 strong, third-person singular present verstirbt, past tense verstarb, past participle verstorben, past subjunctive verstürbe, auxiliary sein)

verstirbt (present singular third-person)
verstarb (past)
verstorben (participle past)
verstürbe (past subjunctive)
sein (auxiliary)
sein (auxiliary)
versterben (infinitive)
versterbend (participle present)
verstorben (participle past)
versterbe (first-person indicative present singular)
versterben (first-person indicative plural present)
versterbe (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
versterben (first-person plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
verstirbst (indicative present second-person singular)
versterbt (indicative plural present second-person)
versterbest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
versterbet (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
verstirbt (indicative present singular third-person)
versterben (indicative plural present third-person)
versterbe (singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
versterben (plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
verstarb (first-person indicative preterite singular)
verstarben (first-person indicative plural preterite)
verstürbe (first-person formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
verstürben (first-person formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
verstarbst (indicative preterite second-person singular)
verstarbt (indicative plural preterite second-person)
verstürbest (formal rare second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
verstürbst (formal rare second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
verstürbet (formal plural rare second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
verstürbt (formal plural rare second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
verstarb (indicative preterite singular third-person)
verstarben (indicative plural preterite third-person)
verstürbe (formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
verstürben (formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
verstirb (imperative second-person singular)
versterbt (imperative plural second-person)
sein (auxiliary)
bin verstorben (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
sind verstorben (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
sei verstorben (first-person multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
seien verstorben (first-person multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
bist verstorben (indicative multiword-construction perfect second-person singular)
seid verstorben (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
seist verstorben (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
seiest verstorben (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
seiet verstorben (multiword-construction perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
ist verstorben (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular third-person)
sind verstorben (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural third-person)
sei verstorben (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
seien verstorben (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
war verstorben (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
waren verstorben (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
wäre verstorben (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
wären verstorben (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
warst verstorben (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular)
wart verstorben (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person)
wärst verstorben (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
wärest verstorben (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
wärt verstorben (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
wäret verstorben (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
war verstorben (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular third-person)
waren verstorben (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural third-person)
wäre verstorben (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
wären verstorben (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
versterben werden (future future-i infinitive multiword-construction)
werde versterben (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden versterben (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest versterben (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet versterben (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde versterben (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden versterben (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde versterben (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden versterben (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde versterben (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden versterben (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst versterben (future future-i indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet versterben (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest versterben (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet versterben (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird versterben (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden versterben (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde versterben (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden versterben (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
verstorben sein werden (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
werde verstorben sein (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden verstorben sein (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest verstorben sein (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet verstorben sein (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde verstorben sein (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden verstorben sein (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde verstorben sein (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden verstorben sein (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde verstorben sein (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden verstorben sein (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst verstorben sein (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet verstorben sein (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest verstorben sein (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet verstorben sein (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird verstorben sein (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden verstorben sein (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde verstorben sein (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden verstorben sein (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)

From Middle High German versterben. By surface analysis, ver- + sterben.

Sie müssen, wenn ich das sagen darf, auch an den Fall denken, dass Ihr Mann einmal versterben könnte.

You must also, if I may say this, think of the case that your husband might pass away at some point.


uxoricide

en-noun

uxoricide (countable and uncountable, plural uxoricides)

From French uxoricide or Latin uxōricīdium.

/ʌkˈsɔː.ɹɪˌsaɪd/

Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).

2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 205–206:

In order for someone to green-light a movie of this story, they’d need to have at least background knowledge of the sexual shenanigans of Sartre and Beauvoir, and of Althusser’s uxoricide – though not necessarily a close acquaintance with their published work.

2015, Will Self, ‘Man-Eating Philosophers’, London Review of Books, volume 37, number 12:

suicide

the act of killing oneself/one who kills oneself


matricide

matricide (countable and uncountable, plural matricides)

From French matricide, from Latin mātricīda (“person who kills his own mother”) and mātricīdium (“the murder of one's mother”). By surface analysis, matri- + -cide.

der

Gerald was imprisoned for matricide: he strangled his mother.


genocide

en-noun

genocide (countable and uncountable, plural genocides)

Armenian genocide
Terminology of the Armenian genocide
The Holocaust
genocide

Coined by lawyer of Polish-Jewish descent Raphael Lemkin in 1943 or 1944 in reference to the Armenian Genocide (then known by other names; see: Terminology of the Armenian genocide) and the Jewish Holocaust. From the stem of Ancient Greek γένος (génos, “race, kind”) (cognate with Latin gēns (“tribe, clan”), whence genus), corresponding to geno- + -cide (“killing, killer”). Piecewise doublet of gendercide. Compare genticide.

der

(by extension) The systematic killing of substantial numbers of people on other grounds.

ជនឃាត

cĕəʼnĕəʼkhiət


genocide

nl-noun

genocide f (plural genocides, diminutive genocidetje n)

genocides (plural)
genocidetje (diminutive neuter)

→ Indonesian: genosida

Borrowed from English genocide. Equivalent to geno- + -cide.


homicide

en-noun

homicide (countable and uncountable, plural homicides)

homicides (plural)
hominicide (alternative)

From Old French homicide, from Latin homicīda (“man-slayer”) and homicīdium (“manslaughter”).

(countable, uncountable, crime) The killing of one person by another, whether premeditated or unintentional.


Valkyrie

The proper noun Valkyries was attested before the common noun valkyries. See the entry valkyrie for more.


extinct

PIE word
 *h₁eǵʰs
From Late Middle English extinct (“eliminated, eradicated, extinguished”), from Latin extīnctus, exstīnctus (“extinguished, quenched; destroyed, killed; made extinct”), the perfect passive participles of extinguō, exstinguō (“to extinguish, put out, quench; (figurative) to abolish; to destroy, kill”), from ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’) + stinguō (“to extinguish, put out, quench”) (from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ- (“to push”)). The Middle English word displaced Middle English aqueint, aquenched (“extinct; extinguished”). Doublet of extinguish.

der

Most of the volcanos on this island are now extinct.

They found the sites of extinct geysers.

(geology) Of a geological feature: no longer active; specifically, of a volcano: no longer erupting.

изгаснал

of a geological feature: no longer active; of a volcano: no longer erupting


afterlife

en-noun

afterlife (plural afterlives or (rare, proscribed) afterlifes)

afterlives (plural)
afterlifes (plural proscribed rare)

Many religious people believe in an afterlife.

Read in euery Starre, and let the Moone be your Candle to doe it, the prouident disposition of God, the eternitie of your after-life.

1614, Thomas Adams, “The Sinners Passing-Bell”, in The Devills Banket, London: Ralph Mab, page 219:

1715, Alexander Pope, The Temple of Fame, London: Bernard Lintott, Note to p. 16, ver. 5,
Those heroick Barbarians accounted it a Dishonour to die in their Beds, and rush’d on to certain Death in the Prospect of an After-Life […]

1891, Ambrose Bierce, “A Watcher by the Dead” in Tales of Soldiers and Civilians, San Francisco: E.L.G. Steele, p. 175,
I, who have not a shade of superstition in my nature—I, who have no belief in immortality—I, who know […] that the after-life is the dream of a desire

Each person took this paper money and dropped it into a huge tin drum which held within it a fierce fire, a bonfire of heavenly money for Tiger’s afterlife.

2005, Tash Aw, chapter 6, in The Harmony Silk Factory, New York: Riverhead Books, page 67:

A conscious existence after death; a supernatural life that follows one's natural life, in some worldviews.


morte

From Old Galician-Portuguese morte, from Latin mortem, from Proto-Indo-European *mértis (“death”).


morte

From Old Galician-Portuguese morte, from Latin mortem (“death”), from Proto-Indo-European *mér-tis (“death”), from *mer- (“to die”).

Goethe veio a público se defender, pois, aparentemente, uma centena de jovens cometera suicídio após a publicação de seu livro Os sofrimentos do jovem Werther, em 1774. Alguns estavam vestidos ao estilo da personagem principal do livro, ou adotaram o mesmo método de suicídio, ou o livro foi encontrado no local da morte.

2015, Maria do Socorro Silva de Aragão, Anais do II Congresso Nacional de Literatura, →ISBN, page 379:

death (personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe)


rigor mortis

rigor mortis (usually uncountable, plural rigor mortises)

rigor mortises (plural)
rigour mortis (alternative misspelling)

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Learned borrowing from New Latin rigor mortis (literally “stiffness of death”). First attested in 1842.

lbor

Such are the principal phenomena observed during that form of contraction which I conceive to be analogous to the rigor mortis...

1840, Royal Society of London, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, page 491:

Then we carried in poor Austin from the yard. His muscles were set as hard as a board in the most exaggerated rigor mortis, while the contraction of the fibres had drawn his mouth into a hard sardonic grin.

1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

[…]an unpublished writer who, for all his ambition and flashes of talent, had not been trained in the rigours (nor rigor mortises, for that matter) of a university education.

1991, Bruce Bennett, Spirit in Exile: Peter Porter and His Poetry, Oxford University Press, page 56:

Its wood can neither be carved nor used for the making of the furniture because of the volatility of those characteristics of the nutrients it has sucked which come from innumerable varieties of rigor mortises.

2009, A.S.Q., The Anatomy of Grief, AuthorHouse, page 109:

Instead, Tender Buttons destabilizes persistent syntactic arrangements and lexical rigor mortises to assert that “certainly glittering is handsome and convincing,” glittering a radiant process of flux and variance.

2010, Dean Young, The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction, Graywolf Press, pages 66–67:

Temporary stiffness of the body's muscles and joints following death.

屍僵 /尸僵

temporary stiffness of the body following death


rigor mortis

rigor mortis (nominative singular)
rigōris mortis (genitive singular)
rigōrī mortis (dative singular)
rigōrem mortis (accusative singular)
rigōre mortis (ablative singular)
rigor mortis (singular vocative)

Compound of rigor (“stiffness”) + mortis (“of death”).


rigor mortis

/ˈʁi.ɡoʁ ˈmɔʁ.t͡ʃiʃ/

[ˈχi.ɡoʁ ˈmɔχ.t͡ʃiʃ]

/ˈʁi.ɡɔɾ ˈmɔɾ.tiʃ/

[ˈʁi.ɣɔɾ ˈmɔɾ.tiʃ]

Learned borrowing from New Latin rigor mortis (literally “stiffness of death”).


corpsicle

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Blend of corpse + popsicle. The cryogenic sense is a coinage by author Frederik Pohl in The Age of the Pussyfoot (1969).

It started when a janitor found a corpsicle floating in a rooftop swimming pool next to Central Park one August morning. A stiff, but I mean stiff.

1992, Spider Robinson, Lady Slings the Booze, page 9:

Eventually, the much-travelled corpsicle arrived back at the family farm, where she was stripped of her plastic shroud and set on the lawn to thaw out before being laid to rest.

1995, The Bermudian - Volume 66, Issues 7-12, page 13:

But if he wandered away in a confused state when the dark came on, he's a corpsicle by now.”

2007, Julia Spencer-Fleming, Out of the Deep I Cry:


hrana

hrana (nominative singular)
hrany (nominative plural)
hrany (genitive singular)
hran (genitive plural)
hraně (dative singular)
hranám (dative plural)
hranu (accusative singular)
hrany (accusative plural)
hrano (singular vocative)
hrany (plural vocative)
hraně (locative singular)
hranách (locative plural)
hranou (instrumental singular)
hranami (instrumental plural)


obituary

/əˈbɪt͡ʃʊ(ə)ɹi/

/əˈbɪt͡ʃəˌwɛɹi/

/əˈbɪt͡ʃuˌɜɹi/

/əˈbɪt͡ʃəɹi/

Baldomero Lillo
La Nación
Susannah Maxwell

PIE word
 *h₁epi
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin obituārius (“obituary”) + English -ary (suffix denoting something relating to another thing or used in a place). Obituārius is derived from Latin obitus (“act of approaching or going toward, an approach; act of going down, setting; of the sun: sunset; death; destruction, downfall, ruin”) + -ārius (suffix forming adjectives and agent nouns); while obitus is a noun use of the perfect passive participle of obeō (“to go to meet, go towards; (figurative) to die, pass away, perish; (astronomy) to set”), from ob- (prefix meaning ‘toward’) + eō (“to go, move”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey- (“to go”).

doodberig

brief notice of a person’s death, especially one published in a newspaper

[N]ot one in fifty of the actual disasters and deaths by casualties in the fishery, ever finds a public record at home, however transient and immediately forgotten that record. Do you suppose that that poor fellow there, who this moment perhaps caught by the whale-line off the coast of New Guinea, is being carried down to the bottom of the sea by the sounding leviathan—do you suppose that that poor fellow's name will appear in the newspaper obituary you will read to-morrow at your breakfast?

1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “The Affidavit”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 228:

The newspaper came in, as usual, after breakfast. I looked it over, and discovered this memorable entry, among the obituary announcements of the day:— "On the 29th inst., at Brighton, Michael Vanstone, Esq., formerly of Zurich, aged 77."

1862, [William] Wilkie Collins, “VIII. Chronicle for April and May.”, in No Name. […], volume II, London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., […], →OCLC, between the scenes (Chronicle of Events: Preserved in Captain Wragge’s Despatch Box), page 21:

“You want to know the ironic thing? I wrote my son’s obituary using ChatGPT,” Mr. Taylor said.

2025 June 13, Kashmir Hill, “They Asked ChatGPT Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling.”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

A brief notice of a person's death, especially one published in a newspaper or other publication; also (obsolete), the section of a newspaper where notices of deaths are published.


Anointing of the Sick

A Catholic sacrament in which a priest anoints a sick or dying person with oil and prays for his salvation.


dying

en-noun

dying (countable and uncountable, plural dyings)

“I'm looking forward to the most fascinating experience in life, which is dying,” he said. “You've got to approach your dying the way you live your life—with curiosity, with hope, with fascination, with courage and with the help of your friends.”

1995 November 26, Laura Mansnerus, quoting Timothy Leary, “At Death's Door, the Message Is Tune In, Turn On, Drop In”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

The process of approaching death; loss of life; death.


deathbed

deathbeds (plural)
death-bed (alternative)
death bed (alternative)

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From Middle English dethbed, from Old English dēaþbedd (“deathbed; grave”), equivalent to death + bed. Cognate with Swedish dödsbädd (“deathbed”). Compare also Dutch sterfbed (“deathbed”), German Sterbebett and Totenbett (both “deathbed”), Danish dødsleje (“deathbed”).


necromancer

necromancers (plural)
nigromancer (alternative)
necromance (alternative)

/ˈnɛkɹəˌmænsɚ/

An alteration of nigromancer after necromancy, equivalent to necromancy + -er.

Necromancers were thought to have the power of restoring activity to the dead, either temporarily or permanently[.]

1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 52:

A person who practices or performs necromancy.


dul

az-noun

dul (definite accusative dulu, plural dullar)

dulu (accusative definite)
dullar (plural)
dul (nominative singular)
dullar (nominative plural)
dulu (accusative definite singular)
dulları (accusative definite plural)
dula (dative singular)
dullara (dative plural)
dulda (locative singular)
dullarda (locative plural)
duldan (ablative singular)
dullardan (ablative plural)
dulun (definite genitive singular)
dulların (definite genitive plural)
dulum (first-person nominative possessive singular)
dullarım (first-person nominative possessive singular)
dulun (nominative possessive second-person singular)
dulların (nominative possessive second-person singular)
dulu (nominative possessive singular third-person)
dulları (nominative possessive singular third-person)
dulumuz (first-person nominative plural possessive)
dullarımız (first-person nominative plural possessive)
dulunuz (nominative plural possessive second-person)
dullarınız (nominative plural possessive second-person)
dulu (nominative plural possessive third-person)
dulları (nominative plural possessive third-person)
dulumu (accusative first-person possessive singular)
dullarımı (accusative first-person possessive singular)
dulunu (accusative possessive second-person singular)
dullarını (accusative possessive second-person singular)
dulunu (accusative possessive singular third-person)
dullarını (accusative possessive singular third-person)
dulumuzu (accusative first-person plural possessive)
dullarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessive)
dulunuzu (accusative plural possessive second-person)
dullarınızı (accusative plural possessive second-person)
dulunu (accusative plural possessive third-person)
dullarını (accusative plural possessive third-person)
duluma (dative first-person possessive singular)
dullarıma (dative first-person possessive singular)
duluna (dative possessive second-person singular)
dullarına (dative possessive second-person singular)
duluna (dative possessive singular third-person)
dullarına (dative possessive singular third-person)
dulumuza (dative first-person plural possessive)
dullarımıza (dative first-person plural possessive)
dulunuza (dative plural possessive second-person)
dullarınıza (dative plural possessive second-person)
duluna (dative plural possessive third-person)
dullarına (dative plural possessive third-person)
dulumda (first-person locative possessive singular)
dullarımda (first-person locative possessive singular)
dulunda (locative possessive second-person singular)
dullarında (locative possessive second-person singular)
dulunda (locative possessive singular third-person)
dullarında (locative possessive singular third-person)
dulumuzda (first-person locative plural possessive)
dullarımızda (first-person locative plural possessive)
dulunuzda (locative plural possessive second-person)
dullarınızda (locative plural possessive second-person)
dulunda (locative plural possessive third-person)
dullarında (locative plural possessive third-person)
dulumdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
dullarımdan (ablative first-person possessive singular)
dulundan (ablative possessive second-person singular)
dullarından (ablative possessive second-person singular)
dulundan (ablative possessive singular third-person)
dullarından (ablative possessive singular third-person)
dulumuzdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
dullarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessive)
dulunuzdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
dullarınızdan (ablative plural possessive second-person)
dulundan (ablative plural possessive third-person)
dullarından (ablative plural possessive third-person)
dulumun (first-person genitive possessive singular)
dullarımın (first-person genitive possessive singular)
dulunun (genitive possessive second-person singular)
dullarının (genitive possessive second-person singular)
dulunun (genitive possessive singular third-person)
dullarının (genitive possessive singular third-person)
dulumuzun (first-person genitive plural possessive)
dullarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessive)
dulunuzun (genitive plural possessive second-person)
dullarınızın (genitive plural possessive second-person)
dulunun (genitive plural possessive third-person)
dullarının (genitive plural possessive third-person)

From Proto-Turkic *tul, *dul(k) (“widow, widower”).


necrology

en-noun

necrology (countable and uncountable, plural necrologies)


fratricide

fratricide (countable and uncountable, plural fratricides)

From Middle French fratricide or its etymon Latin frātricīdium.

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The new accusation brought by Urban against Manfred of murdering his sister-in-law's embassador – it may be observed that, tacitly, he acquits him of parricide, fratricide, and nepoticide – requires a little explanation.

1856, Mrs. William Busk, Mediæval Popes, Emperors, Kings, and Crusaders: Or, Germany, Italy and Palestine, from A.D. 1125 to A.D. 1268, volume IV, London: Hookham and Sons, →OCLC, page 294:

Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).

2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 205–206:

The killing of one's brother (or sister).

From January on, Third Army also spent a good deal of energy trying to solve the problem of fratricide, the killing or injuring of one's own forces by what is ironically called 'friendly fire,'[…]

1999, Richard M. Swain, Lucky War: Third Army in Desert Storm, DIANE Publishing, page 180:

Such a press of arms invites many opportunities for unintentional fratricide.

2007 September 25, Bungie, Halo 3, Microsoft Game Studios, Xbox 360, level/area: Terminal Six (Legendary):

(military, by extension) The intentional or unintentional killing of a comrade in arms.


fratricide

Learned borrowing from Latin frātricīda.


cremains

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Blend of cremated + remains. Apparently originally a euphemism used by undertakers.

Some people prefer to keep the cremains in their homes in a special place.

1992, Kathleen Sublette, Martin Flagg, Final Celebrations: A Guide for Personal and Family Funeral Planning, page 52:

Paul's cremains arrived by limo service less than an hour before the living room memorial.

2009, Mugan Sozan Peter Schellin, Rogue Monk: A Memoir about Zen, Disability, and Work, page 93:

Because of these remaining bone fragments, the cremains must be pulverized to a grainy powder before any scattering of ashes.

2010, Norman L. Cantor, After We Die: The Life and Times of the Human Cadaver, page 111:


widow

en-verb

widow (third-person singular simple present widows, present participle widowing, simple past and past participle widowed)

widows (present singular third-person)
widowing (participle present)
widowed (participle past)
widowed (past)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English widwe, from Old English widuwe, from Proto-West Germanic *widuwā, from Proto-Germanic *widuwǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂, possibly from *h₁weydʰh₁-, *widʰ- (“to separate, split, cleave, divide”), whence also wood from Old English widu, wudu.
Cognates include German Witwe, Dutch weduwe, Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍅𐍉 (widuwō), Old Irish fedb, Latin vidua, Old Church Slavonic въдова (vŭdova), Sanskrit विधवा (vidhavā) and Persian بیوه (bive, bêva), Middle Persian wēwag, Avestan viðavā- "widow" .

(transitive) To make a widow or widower of someone; to cause the death of the spouse of.


widower

From Middle English widwer, equivalent to widow + -er.

Tears of the widower, when he sees
A late-lost form that sleep reveals,
And moves his doubtful arms, and feels
Her place is empty, fall like these; […]

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XIII”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 20:

What happens to the lovers of people with AIDS? How do they experience the passage from lover to caregiver to "widower"?

1988 April 2, Lori Kenschaft, “Film on lovers of PWAs in works”, in Gay Community News, page 6:

A man whose spouse has died (and who has not remarried); a man in relation to his late spouse; masculine of widow. [from 14th c.]

wewenaar

a man whose spouse has died and who has not remarried


vidvo

eo-head

vidvo (accusative singular vidvon, plural vidvoj, accusative plural vidvojn)

vidvon (accusative singular)
vidvoj (plural)
vidvojn (accusative plural)

From German Witwe and Latin vidua, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰéwh₂ (“widow”). Germanic cognates include English widow, Dutch weduwe, West Frisian widdo, while Romance cognates include Italian vedova, French veuve, Spanish viuda, Romanian văduvă.

La nova prezidanto, s-ro Asif Ali Zardari, la vidvo de Benazir Bhutto – murdita en decembro 2007 -, timis, ke la aktivismo de la juĝisto turniĝos kontraŭ li. Sub la premo de la strato, kie mobiliziĝis la advokatoj, la opozicio kaj ilia cirkonstanca portempa aliancano, s-ro Sharif, li estis tamen devigita 'cedi en 2009.

2013 December 5, Christophe JAFFRELOT, “Ĉu registaro de juĝistoj ?”, in Le Monde diplomatique en Esperanto:


capital punishment

en-noun

capital punishment (countable and uncountable, plural capital punishments)

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From the original meaning of capital (“relating to the head”); originally referring to executions by beheading or decapitating.

The practice of putting a person to death as a punishment for a crime.

dënim me vdekje

punishment by death — see also death penalty

महादण्ड m (mahādaṇḍa, literally “the greatest punishment”)


repose

repose (countable and uncountable, plural reposes)

Berthe Morisot
Rhode Island School of Design Museum
Édouard Manet

The verb is derived from Middle English reposen (“to rest”), from Anglo-Norman reposer, reposir, and Middle French reposer, from Old French reposer, repauser (“to become calm; to be peaceful; to rest; to be immobile; to lie or be placed; to cease, stop; to neglect”) (modern French reposer), from Latin repausāre, the present active infinitive of repausō (“(Late Latin) to be at rest; to lie down, rest; to sleep; to calm, pacify; (Latin) to halt temporarily, pause”), from re- (prefix meaning ‘again; back, backwards’) + pausō (“to cease, halt; to pause”) (from pausa (“a halt, stop; a pause; an end”), from Ancient Greek παῦσῐς (paûsĭs, “ceasing, stopping”), from παύω (paúō, “to cease; to make to cease, stop; to bring to an end; to hinder”) (further etymology uncertain; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂w- (“few, little; smallness”)) + -σῐς (-sĭs, suffix forming abstract nouns or nouns of action, process, or result)).
The noun is derived from Late Middle English repose, from Anglo-Norman repous, repos, and Middle French repos, repose, from Old French repos (“calm; rest; period or state of sleep; state of immobility; state of inaction”) (modern French repos), from reposer, repauser (verb) (see above).
Noun sense 12.3 (“technique of including in a painting an area or areas which are dark, indistinct, or soft in tone”) is borrowed from French repos.
Cognates
Catalan reposar (verb), repòs (noun)
Italian riposare (verb), riposo (noun)
Old Occitan repausar, repauzar (verb), repaus (noun)
Portuguese repousar (verb), repouso (noun)
Spanish reposar (verb), reposo (noun)

ref

From the collection of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.A.

col

Cognates

հանգիստ

temporary cessation from activity to rest and recover, especially in the form of sleep; an instance of this — see also break, rest

lepo

of the face, a muscle, etc.: state of being relaxed and not in tension

(uncountable) Temporary cessation from activity to rest and recover, especially in the form of sleep; rest; (countable) an instance of this; a break, a rest; a sleep.

(uncountable) Of the Virgin Mary: death; also assumption into heaven.


urna

urna (nominative singular)
urny (nominative plural)
urny (genitive singular)
uren (genitive plural)
urně (dative singular)
urnám (dative plural)
urnu (accusative singular)
urny (accusative plural)
urno (singular vocative)
urny (plural vocative)
urně (locative singular)
urnách (locative plural)
urnou (instrumental singular)
urnami (instrumental plural)

urna s popelem


give up the ghost

en-verb

give up the ghost (third-person singular simple present gives up the ghost, present participle giving up the ghost, simple past gave up the ghost, past participle given up the ghost)

gives up the ghost (present singular third-person)
giving up the ghost (participle present)
gave up the ghost (past)
given up the ghost (participle past)

Literally, to release one's spirit or soul from the body at death. From Middle English "gaf up þe gost", "ʒave up þe gost", from Old English phrases as "hēo āġeaf hire gāst" (literally, "she gave up her ghost [spirit]"), "þæt iċ gāst mīnne āġifan mōte" (literally, "that I must give up my ghost [spirit]"). Compare German den Geist aufgeben and Dutch de geest geven.
Perhaps most notable and survived in modern English for being used in traditional translation during the death of Jesus during His crucifixion:
The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], 1611, →OCLC, Matthew 27:50: “¶ Iesus, when hee had cried againe with a loud voice, yeelded vp the ghost.”

And Ieſus cryed with a loude voice, and gaue vp the ghoſt.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Mark 15:37:

(intransitive, idiomatic) To cease clinging to life; to die.


carrion

en-adj

carrion (comparative more carrion, superlative most carrion)

more carrion (comparative)
most carrion (superlative)

The noun is derived from Middle English careine, caroigne (“dead body, corpse; animal carcass; reanimated corpse; gangrenous or rotting body or flesh; mortal nature; (derogatory) living body; (figurative) disgusting or worthless thing”), borrowed from Anglo-Norman careine, caroigne, charogne, and Old French charoigne, Northern Old French caˈronië, caroine, caroigne (modern French charogne), probably from Vulgar Latin *carōnia, from Latin caro (“flesh”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“to cut off, sever; to divide, separate”)) + -ia (suffix forming nouns). Doublet of crone.
The regular modern English form would be *carren, *carron /ˈkæɹən/ (this is found dialectally; see similar kyarn); the intervening /i/ is probably a hypercorrection based on the analogy of words like merlin/merlion.
The adjective is derived from the noun.

der

O hell! vvhat haue vve heere, a carrion death? / VVithin vvhoſe empty eye there is a vvritten ſcroule, / Ile reade the vvriting.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene vii], signature [D4], recto:


buy the farm

en-verb

buy the farm (third-person singular simple present buys the farm, present participle buying the farm, simple past and past participle bought the farm)

buys the farm (present singular third-person)
buying the farm (participle present)
bought the farm (participle past)
bought the farm (past)

Not known with certainty. Two long-held hypotheses are as follows: One describes combat soldiers wistfully wishing to go back home, buy a farm, and live peacefully there; later, after they had been killed in combat, their fellow soldiers would say that they had bought the farm (compare the established metaphor pattern of having gone to that big [whatever sort of nice place] in the sky). Another links the phrase to the idea that governments compensate farmers whose land is damaged by a military aircraft crash; a deceased pilot was thus said to have bought the farm, and the term eventually entered wider use.

You're just as dead if you buy the farm in an "incident" as if you buy it in a declared war.

1959, Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers, page 131:

Then tracers laced the sky in front of me. Forget the shooting! If I get distracted now, I'll buy the farm anyway!

BETTY. Shoot, if I knew you was gonna buy the farm I coulda asked for everything you got in the world... How were you gonna do it? ¶ROGER (takes revolver out of briefcase). With this.

1995, Steve Allen, “Having a Good Time”, in Ann McDonough, Kent R. Brown, editors, A Grand Entrance, published 2000, →ISBN, page 212:

They gambled with as much reckless abandon as they flew their airplanes. They knew they might buy the farm tomorrow.

2002, W. Barry Baird, Vietnam Journey, →ISBN, page 171:

(idiomatic, US, informal, euphemistic) To die; generally, to die in battle or in a plane crash.