morte
Death in Italian
Morte is death, borrowed from Romance languages and appearing in English mainly in set phrases and formal contexts.
The phrase la petite mort (literally "the little death") refers to the sensation of orgasm.
Morte appears in Arthurian literature—Le Morte d'Arthur—and occasionally in literary or dramatic contexts where death requires elevated diction.
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- lossBeing without something
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
condolences · wake · memorial · remembrance · widow · widower · orphan · tears
Service honoring the dead
- cemeteryPlace for interring remains
- coffinBurial container for remains
- corpseDeceased human body
- graveSerious and worrying
cremation · obituary · eulogy · burial · deceased · hearse · casket · pallbearer
Final portion or cessation
- demiseCessation of existence
- passingMoving by or temporary
- expirationEnd of validity
- cessationA full stopping
termination · extinction · transience · impermanence · closure · departure · oblivion · annihilation
Sky or bliss
- hellUnderworld of suffering
- purgatoryPlace of temporary suffering
- underworldRealm of the departed
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
resurrection · soul · spirit · limbo · netherworld · beyond · hereafter · transmigration
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- lossBeing without something
- lamentationPassionate expression of grief
sorrow · condolences · wake · memorial · remembrance · widow · widower · orphan · tears · sympathy
funeral
Service honoring the dead
grave · cremation · obituary · eulogy · burial · deceased · hearse · casket · pallbearer · morgue
end
Final portion or cessation
- demiseCessation of existence
- passingMoving by or temporary
- expirationEnd of validity
cessation · termination · extinction · transience · impermanence · closure · departure · oblivion · annihilation · nevermore
heaven
Sky or bliss
- hellUnderworld of suffering
- purgatoryPlace of temporary suffering
- underworldRealm of the departed
reincarnation · resurrection · soul · spirit · limbo · netherworld · beyond · hereafter · transmigration · Elysium
scythe
Manual crop-cutting implement
- specterGhostly threatening presence
- CharonMythical underworld ferryman
- ferrymanOne who shuttles across water
Hades · Anubis · Azrael · skull · skeleton · hourglass · Morrigan
ghoulish
Fascinated by death grotesquely
morbid · grisly · ghastly · sepulchral · charnel · catacombs · ossuary · vanitas · carrion · putrefaction
mortevitality
Capacity for spirited existence
vivacity · vigor · liveliness · flourishing · thriving
- mortal remainsA deceased person's body
- mortal enemyLethal sworn adversary
- mere mortalRegular person, not godlike
- infant mortality ratesMeasure of newborn deaths
- mortal sinsGravest religious transgressions
- lesser mortalsOrdinary folks, implying superiority
mort, mortal, mortals, mortality, immortal, immortals, immortality, mortally, mortician