mort
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覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
mort は古風な狩猟語で、獲物が仕留められたときに角笛で吹く合図を指します。フランス語 mort「死」と結びつけ、「狩りの終わりを告げる死の角笛」と場面で覚えましょう。現代の日常会話ではほぼ使わず、mortal「死すべき」や mortuary「遺体安置所」に共通する mort-「死」が意味の手掛かりです。
Treat mort as a specialized, old hunting word rather than an everyday noun. Picture hunters sounding a horn after the quarry has been killed: the call announces death and marks the end of the pursuit. Link mort with the “death” element seen in mortal, mortality, and mortuary. That shared idea makes the hunting sense easier to retain without relying on sound alone. In modern English, explain it as a hunting-horn death signal; do not substitute it freely for the ordinary noun death, because its use is archaic and context-specific.
mort の類義語・関連語
mort の語源・成り立ち Etymology
ラテン語の「mors(mortis)」(死)に由来し、語根「mort-」は「命の尽きる」意を表します。終焉や狩りの終了を告げる合図に用いられるのは、この「死・終わり」の原義が直結しているためです。同語根の派生語に「mortal(死すべき)」や「mortgage(抵当権)」があります。
Mort in this hunting sense comes through French, where mort means “death,” ultimately from Latin mors, with the genitive form mortis. The stem mort- therefore carries the idea of death or life ending, as it does in mortal, mortality, and mortuary. Applied to hunting, the word named the horn signal sounded when the quarry had been killed.
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