muerto

Dead in Spanish

Muerto is Spanish for dead or a dead person.

In English contexts, it appears most often in Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), the Mexican holiday honoring deceased loved ones.

The word sometimes surfaces in Spanglish or border regions: He's muerto to me means someone is dead to the speaker, cut off entirely.

deceased

restos

Informal term for eateries

celebration

Día de Muertos

Mexican holiday honoring the dead

copal · marigold · noviembre · México

exhausted

fundido

Melted cheese appetizer

lifeless

helado

Frozen sweet dessert

slang

persona

Assumed public identity

carnal

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life status

muertovivo

Lively, in music

Family

mortal, mortality, immortal, immortality, mortify, mortification, mortician, mortuary, murder

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