muerte
Spanish
noun
Definitions
- death the cessation of life
- death the personification of death as a hooded figure
- death, demise the collapse or end of something
Etymology
Inherited from Latin mortem inherited from Proto-Indo-European *mértis (death).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*mértis
Gloss
death
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
死
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- mors Latin
- mortem Latin
- mortem, mors Latin
- morte Italian
- mortifero Italian
- mort French
- *mér-tis, *mértis Proto-Indo-European
- *mértis Proto-Indo-European
- antimorte Portuguese
- morte Portuguese
- mortiço Portuguese
- moarte Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- morte Old Portuguese
- *mortis Proto-Italic
- muerte Asturian
- morti Sicilian
- *mirtis Proto-Balto-Slavic
- muorto Istriot
- muerte Aragonese