mortaldat
Old Spanish
FWOTD – 24 November 2014
Alternative forms
- mortalidat
Etymology
From Latin mortālitās.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /moɾtalˈdat/
Noun
mortaldat f (usually uncountable)
- mortality (death on a large scale)
- c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 48v. col. 1.
- to / do lo compro por .L. marcos de / plata. e fizo ẏ altar. e ſac̃fico / al criador. e finco la mortaldad / en aq̃l logar
- All of it he bought for fifty shekels of silver, and he made an altar and offered a sacrifice to the creator, and so the dying left that place.
- c1200: Almeric, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 48v. col. 1.
Descendants
- Spanish: mortandad
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