Feminine
Meaning

  1. (feminine) death (cessation of life)
  2. (feminine, uncountable) the state of being dead
  3. (feminine, figuratively) destruction; ruin
  4. (feminine) death (personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe)

Opposite of
nascimento, ressurreição, ressuscitação, vida, gênese
Frequency

A1
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈmɔʁ.t͡ʃi/
Etymology

In summary

From Old Galician-Portuguese morte, from Latin mortem (“death”), from Proto-Indo-European *mér-tis (“death”), from *mer- (“to die”).

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