mort-, mor-, mori- +
(Latin: death, dead; die, dying)
abmortal
Situated or directed away from a dead or injured part; applied especially to electric currents set up in injured tissue.
admortal
Moving toward damaged tissue; applied to an electric current.
alamort
To the death; mortally.
algor mortis
The cooling of the body that follows death.
amort
Without life or animation; dejected, as if dead; utterly cast down.
amortality
In the state or act of death; lifeless, inanimate; figuratively spiritless, dejected.
amortization, amortisation
1. The reduction of a debt by making payments with regular transfers or installments, or the money used for this.
2. Payment of an obligation in a series of installments or transfers.
3. The reduction of the value of an asset by prorating its cost over a period of years.
amortize, amortise
1. To deaden, to render as if dead, to destroy.
2. To reduce a debt by making payments against the principal balance in installments or regular transfers.
3. To write off the cost of an asset over a period of time in a statement of accounts.
amortizement
1. A sloping top on a buttress, pillar, etc.
2. An architectural feature; such as, a gable, at the top of a façade.
3. A payment of an obligation in a series of installments or transfers.
4. The reduction of the value of an asset by prorating its cost over a period of years.
antemortem
Before or immediately preceding death.
ante mortem
Before death.
Made or done just before one’s death.
Beata morte nihil beatius.
No greater fortune than an easy death.
Motto of German King Frederick III of Austria (1314-1330).
benemortasia
From Latin, bene mori, “to die well” or “a good death”.
Coined in the early 1970’s by A.J. Dyck, of Harvard University and essentially refers to “passive euthanasia” as opposed to the generally accepted “active” implications of euthanasia.
biomort, biomortia
The dying of a living organism.
cadaver graft, postmortem graft
The grafting of tissue from a dead body onto a living human to repair a defect.
Related "death, dead; kill" units:
-cide;
lethal-;
neci-;
necro-;
phono-;
thanato-.
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