mortuus

Perfect active participle of morior (“die”). Corresponds to Proto-Italic *mortwos, from Proto-Indo-European *mr̥twós, *mr̥tós (“dead, mortal”), *mr̥tó-, ultimately from *mer- (“to die”) + *-wós (whence Latin -uus). Compare Ancient Greek βροτός (brotós), Sanskrit मृत (mṛtá), Old Church Slavonic мрътвъ (mrŭtvŭ), Old Armenian մարդ (mard).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.tu.us/, [ˈmɔrt̪uʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmor.tu.us/, [ˈmɔrt̪uːs]

mortuus (feminine mortua, neuter mortuum); first/second-declension participle

1. dead, having died.

   Synonyms: exanimis, dēfūnctus

   Antonym: vīvus

   • Vulgata—Epistula ad Galatas 2.21:

     Si enim per legem justitia, ergo gratis Christus mortuus est.

     If righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.

2. decayed, withered
3. (figuratively) faint, overwhelmed.

First/second-declension adjective.

• morior
• mors

mortuus m (genitive mortuī); second declension

1. a dead person, dead man
2. a corpse, dead body

Second-declension noun.

• corpus

• “mortuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “mortuus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• mortuus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• mortuus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to entomb a dead body: mortuum in sepulcro condere
    
  • to burn a corpse: aliquem mortuum cremare (Sen. 23. 84)
    
  • to summon some one from the dead: aliquem ab inferis or a mortuis evocare, excitare (passive ab inferis exsistere)
    
  • the last wishes of a deceased person: alicuius mortui voluntas (suprema)