mortar

• morter (archaic)

From Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortarium.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔːtə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)

mortar (countable and uncountable, plural mortars)

2. (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
   • 1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Fire Worship”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:

     The holy hearth! If any earthly and material thing, or rather a divine idea embodied in brick and mortar, might be supposed to possess the permanence of moral truth, it was this.

4. (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.

   Synonyms: mortar and pestle, pestle and mortar

5. (countable, military, historical) A short, heavy, large-bore cannon designed for indirect fire at very steep trajectories.
7. (countable, military) A relatively lightweight, often portable indirect fire weapon which transmits recoil to a base plate and is designed to lob explosive shells at very steep trajectories. [from 20th c.]
8. (countable) In paper milling, a trough in which material is hammered.

• → Indonesian: mortar

mortar (third-person singular simple present mortars, present participle mortaring, simple past and past participle mortared)

1. (transitive) To use mortar or plaster to join two things together.
2. (transitive) To pound in a mortar.
3. To fire a mortar (weapon).
4. To attack (someone or something) using a mortar (weapon).

   The insurgents snuck up close and mortared the base last night.

• bricks and mortar

• gun
• howitzer

• marrot

Derived from morto +‎ -ar.

• IPA^(key): /mɔrˈtar/

mortar (present mortas, past mortis, future mortos, conditional mortus, imperative mortez)

1. (intransitive, literally and figuratively) to die, cease to live, depart this life
2. (intransitive) to go out (of fire, lights, etc.)
3. (intransitive) to come to an end (of movement)

From English mortar, from Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortir.

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔrtar/ [ˈmɔr.t̪ar]
• Rhymes: -ɔrtar
• Syllabification: mor‧tar

mortar (plural mortar-mortar)

1. mortar,
   1. a mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks

      Synonym: spesi

   2. a hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle

      Synonym: lumpang

• “mortar”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

mortar

1. alternative form of morter

mortar m

1. indefinite plural of mort

Borrowed from Latin mortārium (19th century). Doublet of mortier.

• IPA^(key): /morˈtar/

mortar n (uncountable)

1. mortar (construction material)

• mortier
• mojar

• “mortar”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026