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Translation

to die out, to become extinct

Word origin

Built inside Esperanto from the adverb for ('away') and the root mort- ('to die'), which comes from Latin mori. The compound follows the ordinary for- pattern of removal, so it means to die away rather than simply to die.

Origin
Esperanto compound, on a Latin root
Root
for + mort-
English cognates
mortal, mortuary

Examples

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Many species have died out over the last hundred years.

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The old custom died out with the grandparents.

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If nobody speaks a language, it dies out.

Another clean decode, and the prefix does all the work.For is a full adverb meaning away, and Esperanto lets you weld it to the front of a verb to add removal or disappearance. Morti is to die. Die plus away gives : to die out, to become extinct, to dwindle to nothing. It is not one death but the end of a whole line, so a person and a species, a language, a custom or a family name .

The for- family is worth collecting in one go.Forviŝi is to wipe away, to take away, fordoni to give away, forĵeti to throw away, forporti to carry away, to go away. Learn the prefix once and half a dozen verbs arrive together. is the neutral general-purpose one, simply to remove.

Grammar note, because it matters here. is strictly intransitive and inherits that: things die out, nobody dies them out. To wipe a species out deliberately you need --, giving i, to exterminate. The participle describes something that has died out already, which is how you say an extinct species: . And the noun is formorto, the dying out itself.

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This word is part of lesson 50.