Translation
immortal, undying
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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;
is without guilt, innocent; 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 .
Where this fits
Word family
Words built on senmorta with Esperanto's affixes. Read each one from its parts.
- senmorteconoun
immortality
senmorta-ec-: the state of being immortal
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Start your free weekThis word is taught in chapter 29, lesson 3: senmorta, malgrasa, komponi and 7 more words.