“death” in Latin

mors (extinction of life, or the separation of the soul from the body): letum (as the lot of man, poetical): nex (violent death, and confined to this sense in classical prose). There are, also, many euphemistic expressions for death, such as obitus; excessus vitae or e vita; discessus a vita: finis or exitus vitae: dissolutio naturae, etc.: interitus; exitium (violent death, the former usually, the latter always): after death, post-mortem: after the death of anybody, post mortem alicujus; aliquo mortuo: near his death, moriens or moribundus: ☞ The forms in bundus strengthen the notion of the present participle; moribundus = when the hand of death was laid violently upon him: death for one’s country, mors pro patria, oppetita: to die a violent death, violenta morte perire: to die a natural death, naturae concedere or satisfacere; vitam naturae reddere; morbo naturae debitum reddere; sua morte defungi; fato obire mortem; fataliter mori: a sudden death, mors subita: to be cut off by a sudden death, repentino mori; subita morte exstingui or corripi: a voluntary, a premature death, mors voluntaria or oppetita; mors immatura: to condemn to death and execute, aliquem capitis damnatum morte multare: to have an easy death, facilem exitum habere: to put anybody to death, mortem alicui afferre; morte aliquem afficere; morte multare (especially of a judge, sovereign, etc.; but also of a person himself, of nature, etc.): to suffer death, mortem subire or oppetere (opposed to implying, if not actually courting it, yet bravely encountering it); for anybody, emori, or mortem (seldom morte, Liv.) occumbere pro aliquo: to meet death bravely, aequo animo mortem oppetere; fidenti animo ad mortem gradi: to shun death, mortem fugere: to seek death, mortem expetere: to find an honorable death, honeste occumbere: to punish with death, morte multare; supplicio afficere (persons only): supplicio vindicare aliquid (a crime): the punishment of anything is death, alicui rei supplicium constitutum est: anybody’s sorrow will be the death of him, aliquis moerore consumitur: to dread anything as much as death itself, aliquid mortis instar putare: to meet one’s death on the field of battle, (in) proelio or acie cadere: to pass sentence of death, to condemn to death, capitis or capite damnare or condemnare: to beat anybody to death, aliquem ad mortem mulcare: to starve one’s self to death, per inediam a vita discedere: I was tormented with the fear of death, metu mortis cruciabar: to let anybody choose his own death, alicui liberum mortis arbitrium indulgere: to drink off the cup of death, poculum mortis exhaurire: the hour of death, hora suprema; tempus mortis or moriendi: when the hour of death was nigh, cum jam moriendi tempus urgeret: sentence of death, *sententia, qua aliquis capitis condemnatur. The punishment of death, poena vitae, capitis, or mortis; ultima poena; supplicium ultimum, extremum, or summum; from context, also, supplicium only; a crime of which the punishment is death [Vid. CAPITAL, adjective]: to pronounce sentence of death, constituere in aliquem supplicium; decernere alicui supplicium: to make it death to do so and so, capite sancire, si quis, etc.; sacrare caput ejus, qui, etc. (Liv. 2, 8): it was death to, etc., or, if any one did so and so, the punishment was death, capitale fuit or capital fuit, etc.: sick unto death, morbo gravi et mortifero affectus: to be sick unto death, mortifere aegrotare (Plin., Ep., 3, 16, 3); morbo mortifero correptum esse; morbo gravi et mortifero affectum esse: the sleep of death, sopor aeternus (Lucr., 3, 467): a death-blow, plaga extrema (Vid: Cic., Sext., 37, 80): to give anybody his death-blow, plagam extremam infligere: the news of anybody’s death, nuntius mortis: to receive a false report of anybody’s death, de morte alicujus falsus nuntius venit: the pains of death, *mortis cruciatus: *discrimen mortis: a death-sweat, *sudor, quem mors elicit or evocat: the certificate of anybody’s death, *litterae mortis testes: to be at deaths door, animam agere (to be breathing one’s last); mortifere aegrotare (Plin.).

DEATH-WATCH (insect), *termes pulsatorius (Linn.): The DEATH’S-HEAD SPHINX, Sphinx Atropos (Linn.).

DEATH-BED, lectus vitalis (Petronius): *lectus fatalis (Ern.): On his death- bed, moriens (as he was dying): moribundus (visibly dying; the hand of death being upon him).