Latin · root
mori
die
Forms
- mor-
- mort- — Shared by Latin mortuus, ‘dead,’ and the noun stem mort-, ‘death.’
Origin
Reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *mer-, ‘die.’
Note
English murder belongs to the same older word family, through Germanic.
die
Reconstructed Proto-Indo-European *mer-, ‘die.’
English murder belongs to the same older word family, through Germanic.