mortem
Indonesian
Etymology
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”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɔrt̪əm]
- Hyphenation: mor‧têm
Noun
mortem (first-person possessive mortemku, second-person possessive mortemmu, third-person possessive mortemnya)
- death.
- Synonym: kematian
Further reading
- “mortem” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Latin
Noun
mortem
- accusative singular of mors