"premortem" meaning in All languages combined

See premortem on Wiktionary

Adjective [English]

Forms: pre mortem [alternative], pre-mortem [alternative], prae-mortem [alternative], præ-mortem [alternative]
Etymology: From pre- (“before”) + Latin mortem (accusative singular of mors (“death”)), after post mortem. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mer-|id=die}}, {{prefix|en|pre<t:before>|la:mortem}} pre- (“before”) + Latin mortem, {{glossary|accusative}} accusative, {{glossary|singular}} singular Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} premortem (not comparable)
  1. Before death. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: antemortem, anthumous, predeath, prehumous
    Sense id: en-premortem-en-adj-iAHQkd7~ Categories (other): English terms prefixed with pre- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with pre-: 35 27 38

Adverb [English]

Forms: pre mortem [alternative], pre-mortem [alternative], prae-mortem [alternative], præ-mortem [alternative]
Etymology: From pre- (“before”) + Latin mortem (accusative singular of mors (“death”)), after post mortem. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mer-|id=die}}, {{prefix|en|pre<t:before>|la:mortem}} pre- (“before”) + Latin mortem, {{glossary|accusative}} accusative, {{glossary|singular}} singular Head templates: {{en-adv|-}} premortem (not comparable)
  1. Before death. Tags: not-comparable Synonyms: antemortem, anthumously, prehumously
    Sense id: en-premortem-en-adv-iAHQkd7~ Categories (other): English terms prefixed with pre- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with pre-: 35 27 38

Noun [English]

Forms: premortems [plural], pre mortem [alternative], pre-mortem [alternative], prae-mortem [alternative], præ-mortem [alternative]
Etymology: From pre- (“before”) + Latin mortem (accusative singular of mors (“death”)), after post mortem. Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*mer-|id=die}}, {{prefix|en|pre<t:before>|la:mortem}} pre- (“before”) + Latin mortem, {{glossary|accusative}} accusative, {{glossary|singular}} singular Head templates: {{en-noun}} premortem (plural premortems)
  1. An analysis of potential failure before it happens.
    Sense id: en-premortem-en-noun-HJDJftSb Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with pre-, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 25 25 49 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with pre-: 35 27 38 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 25 25 49 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 26 26 48

Noun [Spanish]

Forms: premortems [plural]
Head templates: {{es-noun|m}} premortem m (plural premortems)
  1. premortem Tags: masculine
    Sense id: en-premortem-es-noun-ZXOeiwyU Categories (other): Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Spanish entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-08 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (887c61b and 3d4dee6). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.