Feminine
Meaning

  1. (feminine) death (the cessation of life)
  2. (capitalized, feminine, often) death (the personification of death as a hooded figure)
  3. (feminine) death, demise (the collapse or end of something)

Opposite of
vida, nacimiento
Frequency

A1
Hyphenated as
muer‧te
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmweɾte/
Etymology

In summary

Inherited from Latin mortem (“death”) [whence English mortal and mortify], from Proto-Indo-European *mértis (“death”), from *mer- (“to die”).

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