morir

Inherited from Old Catalan morir, from Latin morīrī, variant of morī.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic) [muˈɾi]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [moˈɾiɾ]

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• Rhymes: -i(ɾ)

morir (first-person singular present moro, first-person singular preterite morí, past participle mort); root stress: (Central, Valencia, Balearic) /ɔ/

1. to die

• mort

• “morir”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “morir”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
• “morir” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “morir”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)

Inherited from Latin morī(rī).

morir (ORB, broad)

1. to die

   Antonym: vivre

• mourir in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• morir in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 75: “morire” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[1] – map 882 – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “mŏrdĕre”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 126

morir (apocopated)

1. apocopic form of morire

• morì

Inherited from Latin morīrī, variant of morī.

morir

1. to die

• Ladin conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

morir (Hebrew spelling מוריר)^[1]

1. alternative form of murir

• mourir (Mistralian spelling)

Inherited from Old Occitan morir, from Latin morīrī, variant of morī.

• IPA^(key): /muˈɾi/

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morir

1. to die

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• mort

• murir

Inherited from Latin morīrī, variant of morī. The sense of "to kill" may have been back-formed from the Latin ancestor's deponent nature.

• IPA^(key): /muˈɾiɾ/

morir

1. (intransitive) to die
   • c. 1250, Marie de France, Guigemar:

     Kar ne se volt laissier murir

     Because he didn't want to let himself die

2. (transitive, rare, takes avoir as an auxiliary) to kill
   • 12^th Century, Unknown, Raoul de Cambrai:

     Se l'avés mort il m'en poise forment.

     If you have killed him, it will bother me greatly.

This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has a stressed present stem muer distinct from the unstressed stem mor, as well as other irregularities. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

• mort

• Middle French: mourir
  • French: mourir
    • Haitian Creole: mouri
    • Louisiana Creole: mouri
• Norman: mouorir (Guernsey), mouothi (Jersey)
• Picard: moérir
• Walloon: mori

Inherited from Latin morīrī, variant of morī.

morir

1. to die

• mort

• Occitan: morir

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “mori”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 132

• murir

Inherited from Latin morīrī, variant of morī. Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese morrer, morer and Old French morir, murir.

morir

1. (intransitive) to die; to pass away (cease living)

   Antonym: bevir

   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 54r:

     dixo ẏſaẏas a los menſageros q̃l embio el reẏ ezechias aſſi dizredes al nr̃o ſennor q̃ diz el criador Nõ temas delas menazas q̃ oiſt de los uaſſallos del reẏ de ſur. Afe yo trametre uiẽto ⁊ oyra tal palabra. por q̃stornara aſu tr̃a ⁊ ẏl fara morir aeſpada.

     Isaiah said the messengers sent to him by king Hezekiah, “You will tell our master that thus says the Creator, ‘Do not fear the threats you have heard from the servants of the king of the south. Lo, I will send wind and he will hear a rumor such that he will return to his land, and there he will be made to die by the sword.’”

• Ladino: morir, murir, מוריר
• Spanish: morir

• Ralph Steele Boggs et al. (1946), “morir”, in Tentative Dictionary of Medieval Spanish, volume II, Chapel Hill, page 349

Inherited from Old Spanish murir, morir, from Latin morīrī, variant of morī. Cognate with Galician morrer, Ladino murir, and Portuguese morrer. Compare English mortify.

• IPA^(key): /moˈɾiɾ/ [moˈɾiɾ]

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• Rhymes: -iɾ
• Syllabification: mo‧rir

morir (first-person singular present muero, first-person singular preterite morí, past participle muerto)

1. (intransitive, sometimes reflexive) to die

   Synonyms: estirar la pata, fallecer, morirse, palmar, irse, marchar, pasar, expirar, perecer, sucumbir, fenecer, finar, quedarse, apagarse, acabar, (colloquial) palmar, (colloquial) cascar, (colloquial) espichar, (colloquial) caer, (colloquial) sonar, (colloquial) petatearse, (colloquial) despichar, (colloquial) ñampiarse, (colloquial) jetearse, (colloquial) piantarse, (colloquial) pelarse, (vulgar) descoñetar, (archaic) transir, (dated) transirse

   Antonym: vivir

   La caballerosidad no ha muerto.

   Chivalry isn't dead.

   Un joven de trece años murió en un accidente aéreo.

   A thirteen-year-old boy died in a plane crash.

2. (intransitive, reflexive, idiomatic) to be dying (for, to)

• The reflexive form of this verb, morirse, is more informal, while the non-reflexive form, morir, is more formal.
• Widely used figuratively, as in English:
  • Me morí del aburrimiento ― I died of boredom
  • Me morí del susto ― I died of fright

• “morir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025

Inherited from Latin morīrī, variant of morī.

morir

1. (intransitive) to die

* Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.