mort-, mor-, mori- +

(Latin: death, dead; die, dying)


Calicem vitae dedisti mihi in mortem.
The cup of life is the cup of death.

Motto of German Emperor Henry VII of Luxembourg (1308-1313).

Caput mortuum.
Dead head; death's head or a skull.
Human skull.

This was a term, or name, alchemists gave to worthless material that remained after their experiments; such as, residuum left after chemical analysis; worthless residue in a flask after the distillation was complete; by extension, "a worthless or useless person".

De mortuis nihil nisi bonum.
Of the dead, (say) nothing but good.

Another translation: "Speak kindly of the dead." It is believed that Chilon of Sparta, one of the wise men of sixth-century B.C. Greece, is the author of this saying. Keep in mind that this would be a Latin translation of what Chilon said in Greek.

The advice to everyone is to speak well of the recently dead or, if you can not say anything good, to keep quiet.

Esto fidelis usque ad mortem.
Be faithful unto death.
immortable
Having the capacity to live after death.
immortal
1. Not mortal; not liable or subject to death; deathless, undying; living for ever; such as, the immortal soul.
2. In a wider sense, not liable to perish or decay; everlasting, imperishable, unfading, incorruptible.
3. Of fame, or of famous works or their authors; lasting through an unlimited succession of ages that will not fade from the memory of men; remembered or celebrated through all time: "Shakespeare's immortal plays."
To make a speech immortal you don't have to make it everlasting.
—Lord Leslie Hore-Belisha
immortality
1. The quality or condition of being immortal; exemption from death or annihilation; endless life or existence; eternity; perpetuity.
2. The condition of being celebrated through all time; enduring fame or remembrance.

Immortality is considered by some people to be a fate worse than death.

The nearest approach to immortality on earth is a government bureau.

—Jame F. Byrnes
immortalizable
Capable of being immortalized, or of becoming immortal.
immortalization
1. The ability of a genetically engineered cell line to reproduce indefinitely.
2. The act of immortalizing (exempt from death), or the situation whereby one is immortalized (given unending life).
immortalize
1. To endow with endless life; to exempt from death.
2. To make (a thing) everlasting, to confer endless existence upon; to perpetuate.
3. To cause to be remembered or celebrated through all time; to confer enduring fame upon.
immortally
Characterized by having an unending existence; deathless; enduring.
immortelle
1. Any of various plants, such as species of the genera Helichrysum, Xeranthemum, and Erythrina, having flowers that retain their shape and color when dried.
French for "the everlasting"; mostly widely cultivated species of everlasting flowers usually having purple flowers; from southern Europe to Iran; naturalized elsewhere.
in articulo mortis
In the grasp of death or at the moment of death.

A statement made in articulo mortis, "at the point of death", carries special weight; since it is believed that a person about to die has nothing to gain, perhaps much to lose, by lying.

infant mortality
Perinatal (before and after birth), neonatal (first four weeks after birth), and infant (child up to 24 months of age) deaths in a given population.
Is minimum eget mortalis qui minimum eupit.
That man is least in want who desires least.

From Publilius Syrus, Sententiae (c.43 B.C.).


Related "death, dead; kill" units: -cide; lethal-; neci-; necro-; phono-; thanato-.


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