mortifero

See also: mortífero

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mortifer, mortiferus, derived from mors (“death”). By surface analysis, morte +‎ -ifero.

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

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

• mortiferamente

Related terms

• morte

Anagrams

• termofori

Latin

Adjective

mortiferō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of mortifer