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See also: mortífero

Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin mortifer, mortiferus, derived from mors (death) + -fer (-bearing, -carrying), originally a calque of Ancient Greek θᾰνᾰτηφόρος (thanatēphóros, deadly, lethal, literally death-bearing). By surface analysis, morte +‎ -ifero.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /morˈti.fe.ro/
  • Rhymes: -ifero
  • Hyphenation: mor‧tì‧fe‧ro

Adjective

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mortifero (feminine mortifera, masculine plural mortiferi, feminine plural mortifere) (literary)

  1. deadly, lethal, deathly, mortiferous
    Synonyms: letale, mortale
    • 2009, Daniele Luttazzi, “Pesci selvatici e le melodie delle foreste andaluse [Wild fish, and the melodies of Andalusian forests]”, in La guerra civile fredda [Cold Civil War], 2nd edition (paperback), Feltrinelli, →ISBN, page 207:
      la satira è contro il potere, di cui riesce ad annullare la natura mortifera mantenendo viva nel nostro immaginario quella sana oscillazione fra sacro e profano che chiamiamo dubbio
      Satire is against Power, whose deathly nature it is able to cancel, keeping alive, in our imagination, that healthy oscillation between sacred and profane which we call doubt
  2. (rare) foreboding death
  3. (rare) mortal

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • mortifero in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
  • mortifero in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
  • mortìfero in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
  • mortìfero in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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mortiferō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of mortifer