morto

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Meaning

1. (comparable) dead (no longer living)
2. (comparable) dead (completely inactive)
3. (comparable,informal) exhausted (extremely tired)
4. (comparable,figuratively) dead (not showing emotion)

Frequency

Hyphenated as

mor‧to

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈmoʁ.tu/

Etymology

From Old Galician-Portuguese morto, from Vulgar Latin *mortu(s), from Latin mortuus, perfect active participle of morior (“to die”). Corresponds to Proto-Indo-European *mr̥twós, *mr̥tós (“dead, mortal”), *mr̥tó-, ultimately from *mer- (“to die”). Compare Galician morto and Spanish muerto.

Cognate with Galician

morto

Cognate with Spanish

muerto

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New

matar

to kill (to cause to die)
(figuratively,transitive) to kill; to eradicate; to destroy
(figuratively,informal,transitive) to kill (to cause extreme pain, distress or exhaustion in)
(transitive) to kill (to write a story that conveys the death of)
(figuratively,transitive) to satisfy, to satiate, to quench (to fulfil an emotional or physiological need)
(figuratively,pronominal) to break one's back (to make a great effort)
(colloquial,transitive) to spend [a period of time] doing unimportant things
(Brazil,slang,transitive) to skip (not to be present in a class)
(informal,transitive) to solve (to find the solution to a mystery)
(Brazil,slang,transitive) to consume something entirely (especially an alcoholic drink); to knock down
(transitive) to stop a moving ball
(transitive) to pocket (to cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table)