senmorta in Esperanto: immortal, undying (adjective)

Translation

immortal, undying

Word origin

Built inside Esperanto rather than borrowed: sen ('without') plus the root of morti ('to die') plus the adjective ending -a. Nothing here comes from Latin immortalis, though it lands in the same place.

Origin: Esperanto compound
Root: sen + mort- + -a

Examples

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The ancient gods were immortal.

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No person is immortal.

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His name will remain immortal in the history of the country.

Three pieces, and you already own all three. is the preposition without and doubles as a prefix; mort- is the root of morti, to die; -a makes an adjective. Without-death. The word is a small demonstration of why Esperanto vocabulary stops growing after a while: you do not learn , you assemble it, and you could have assembled it before you ever met it.

The - family is worth naming as a family, because it is one of the most productive patterns in the language and every member reads the same way: senlima is without a limit, boundless; sendependa is without dependence, independent; senkulpa is without guilt, innocent; senutila is without use. Meet one and you have met the machine.

Against eterna, which is not the same claim. is eternal: outside time, without beginning or end, and it happily describes a truth, a law or a rock. says only that the thing does not die, which presumes it was alive, or at least alive enough for dying to have been on the table. Gods, heroes and reputations are . The mathematical constants are .

Related words

morti

to die

eterna

eternal, everlasting

senlima

boundless, limitless

sendependa

independent

dio

god

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