See morter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "mortar"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "mortar"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Scots",
"lang_code": "gmw-msc",
"word": "mortar"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "mortar"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Scots",
"lang_code": "gmw-msc",
"word": "morter"
},
{
"lang": "Welsh",
"lang_code": "cy",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "morter"
},
{
"lang": "Welsh",
"lang_code": "cy",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "mortar"
}
],
"etymology_links": [
[
"mortier",
"mortier#Old_French"
],
[
"mortārium",
"mortarium#Latin"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "fro",
"3": "mortier"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Old French mortier",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "la",
"3": "mortārium"
},
"expansion": "Latin mortārium",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "before",
"2": "1300"
},
"expansion": "First attested before 1300",
"name": "etydate"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. First attested before 1300.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "morteres",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "morteer",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "mortere",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "moorter",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "mortour",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "mortyer",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Kent"
]
},
{
"form": "mortar",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Northern"
]
},
{
"form": "mortare",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Northern"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": "",
"sort": "",
"var": ""
},
"expansion": "morter",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "morteres"
},
"expansion": "morter (plural morteres)",
"name": "enm-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "5 5 6 16 3 25 29 5 5 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "31 19 19 32",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Construction",
"orig": "enm:Construction",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "26 5 34 35",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Light sources",
"orig": "enm:Light sources",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A bowl or vessel:",
"A mortar (bowl or cavity for mixing ingredients)"
],
"id": "en-morter-enm-noun-EuW04iDC",
"links": [
[
"bowl",
"bowl"
],
[
"vessel",
"vessel"
],
[
"mortar",
"mortar"
],
[
"bowl",
"bowl#English"
],
[
"cavity",
"cavity#English"
],
[
"mix",
"mix#English"
],
[
"ingredient",
"ingredient#English"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "31 19 19 32",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Construction",
"orig": "enm:Construction",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A bowl or vessel:",
"A bowl filled with fuel as a lamp."
],
"id": "en-morter-enm-noun-gg6NPyBx",
"links": [
[
"bowl",
"bowl"
],
[
"vessel",
"vessel"
],
[
"bowl",
"bowl"
],
[
"fill",
"fill"
],
[
"fuel",
"fuel"
],
[
"lamp",
"lamp"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "5 5 6 16 3 25 29 5 5 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "31 19 19 32",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Construction",
"orig": "enm:Construction",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "27 17 34 21",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Containers",
"orig": "enm:Containers",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 15 45 25",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Law enforcement",
"orig": "enm:Law enforcement",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "26 5 34 35",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Light sources",
"orig": "enm:Light sources",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A bowl or vessel:",
"A bowl carried as punishment."
],
"id": "en-morter-enm-noun-9VC7XOlQ",
"links": [
[
"bowl",
"bowl"
],
[
"vessel",
"vessel"
],
[
"bowl",
"bowl"
],
[
"carried",
"carry"
],
[
"punishment",
"punishment"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"A bowl or vessel:",
"(rare) A bowl carried as punishment."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "7 7 8 12 5 19 25 7 7 3",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 4 entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "5 5 6 16 3 25 29 5 5 2",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "27 6 29 38",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "31 19 19 32",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Construction",
"orig": "enm:Construction",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "26 5 34 35",
"kind": "other",
"langcode": "enm",
"name": "Light sources",
"orig": "enm:Light sources",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
106,
112
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
102,
108
]
],
"english": "[…] to keep cows in the field, grain from the animals, to ditch, dig, or beat on sheaves, / help make mortar, or deliver manure to the field.",
"ref": "c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “Paſſus quıntus de vıſıone vt supͣ”, in [Piers Plowman, A Treatise on Sin] (W, B-text), London, published c. 1400, →OCLC, folio 37, verso; republished as Thorlac Turville-Petre, Hoyt N. Duggan, editors, Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; 2), SEENET, 2014, →ISBN:",
"text": "To kepe kyen in þe feld. þe coꝛn fro þe beeſtes / Dıken oꝛ deluen. or dyngen vp on sheues / Oꝛ helpe make moꝛter. oꝛ bere Muk a feld",
"translation": "[…] to keep cows in the field, grain from the animals, to ditch, dig, or beat on sheaves, / help make mortar, or deliver manure to the field.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Grout or mortar (substance for binding bricks)"
],
"id": "en-morter-enm-noun-kh5uUiI5",
"links": [
[
"Grout",
"grout"
],
[
"mortar",
"mortar"
],
[
"substance",
"substance#English"
],
[
"bind",
"bind#English"
],
[
"brick",
"brick#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mɔrˈteːr/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɔrtɛr/"
}
],
"word": "morter"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"Middle English nouns",
"Middle English terms borrowed from Old French",
"Middle English terms derived from Latin",
"Middle English terms derived from Old French",
"Pages with 4 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"enm:Construction",
"enm:Containers",
"enm:Law enforcement",
"enm:Light sources"
],
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "mortar"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "mortar"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Scots",
"lang_code": "gmw-msc",
"word": "mortar"
},
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "mortar"
}
],
"lang": "Middle Scots",
"lang_code": "gmw-msc",
"word": "morter"
},
{
"lang": "Welsh",
"lang_code": "cy",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "morter"
},
{
"lang": "Welsh",
"lang_code": "cy",
"raw_tags": [
"borrowed"
],
"word": "mortar"
}
],
"etymology_links": [
[
"mortier",
"mortier#Old_French"
],
[
"mortārium",
"mortarium#Latin"
]
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "fro",
"3": "mortier"
},
"expansion": "Borrowed from Old French mortier",
"name": "bor+"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "la",
"3": "mortārium"
},
"expansion": "Latin mortārium",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "before",
"2": "1300"
},
"expansion": "First attested before 1300",
"name": "etydate"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Borrowed from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. First attested before 1300.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "morteres",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "morteer",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "mortere",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "moorter",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "mortour",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Late-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "mortyer",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Kent"
]
},
{
"form": "mortar",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Northern"
]
},
{
"form": "mortare",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Northern"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "noun",
"g": "",
"g2": "",
"g3": "",
"head": "",
"sort": "",
"var": ""
},
"expansion": "morter",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "morteres"
},
"expansion": "morter (plural morteres)",
"name": "enm-noun"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A bowl or vessel:",
"A mortar (bowl or cavity for mixing ingredients)"
],
"links": [
[
"bowl",
"bowl"
],
[
"vessel",
"vessel"
],
[
"mortar",
"mortar"
],
[
"bowl",
"bowl#English"
],
[
"cavity",
"cavity#English"
],
[
"mix",
"mix#English"
],
[
"ingredient",
"ingredient#English"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A bowl or vessel:",
"A bowl filled with fuel as a lamp."
],
"links": [
[
"bowl",
"bowl"
],
[
"vessel",
"vessel"
],
[
"bowl",
"bowl"
],
[
"fill",
"fill"
],
[
"fuel",
"fuel"
],
[
"lamp",
"lamp"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with rare senses"
],
"glosses": [
"A bowl or vessel:",
"A bowl carried as punishment."
],
"links": [
[
"bowl",
"bowl"
],
[
"vessel",
"vessel"
],
[
"bowl",
"bowl"
],
[
"carried",
"carry"
],
[
"punishment",
"punishment"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"A bowl or vessel:",
"(rare) A bowl carried as punishment."
],
"tags": [
"rare"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
106,
112
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
102,
108
]
],
"english": "[…] to keep cows in the field, grain from the animals, to ditch, dig, or beat on sheaves, / help make mortar, or deliver manure to the field.",
"ref": "c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “Paſſus quıntus de vıſıone vt supͣ”, in [Piers Plowman, A Treatise on Sin] (W, B-text), London, published c. 1400, →OCLC, folio 37, verso; republished as Thorlac Turville-Petre, Hoyt N. Duggan, editors, Cambridge, Trinity College, MS B.15.17 (The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; 2), SEENET, 2014, →ISBN:",
"text": "To kepe kyen in þe feld. þe coꝛn fro þe beeſtes / Dıken oꝛ deluen. or dyngen vp on sheues / Oꝛ helpe make moꝛter. oꝛ bere Muk a feld",
"translation": "[…] to keep cows in the field, grain from the animals, to ditch, dig, or beat on sheaves, / help make mortar, or deliver manure to the field.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Grout or mortar (substance for binding bricks)"
],
"links": [
[
"Grout",
"grout"
],
[
"mortar",
"mortar"
],
[
"substance",
"substance#English"
],
[
"bind",
"bind#English"
],
[
"brick",
"brick#English"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/mɔrˈteːr/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈmɔrtɛr/"
}
],
"word": "morter"
}
Download raw JSONL data for morter meaning in Middle English (4.2kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-10-25 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-10-01 using wiktextract (f9fe161 and 6f96ddf). 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.