mortem

Learned borrowing from Latin mortem, mors (“death, corpse, annihilation”), from Proto-Italic *mortis, from Proto-Indo-European *mértis (“death”), from *mer- (“to die”). Compare to Indonesian amerta (“immortal”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmor.təm/, [ˈmor.t̪əm]
• Hyphenation: mor‧têm

mortem (plural mortem-mortem)

1. death

   Synonym: kematian

• “mortem” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

mortem f

1. accusative singular of mors (“death”)