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morto

Pronunciation: /ˈmɔr.to/

“morto” is an Italian word. Its 10 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. dead
  2. dead (experiencing pins and needles) (of a body part)
  3. past (of a time period)

noun

  1. dead man
  2. corpse, dead body
  3. an inactive or idle person
  4. a fourth, absent player
  5. dummy

verb

  1. died
  2. killed, murdered

In Italian

  1. di persona o animale nella quale è avvenuta la cessazione totale delle funzioni vitali
  2. individuo morto

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *mortus, from Classical Latin mortuus, from Proto-Italic *mortwos, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥twós, derived from the root *mer- (“to die; to disappear”).

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