English → Latin
“mortality” in Latin
mortālitāsmortalitynātūrathe nature, quality, substance or essence of a thing; character, temperament, inclination, disposition; nature, the natumorsdeath; corpse, dead body; annihilationintereōto go among, become lost in; to disappear, vanish; to be ruined, undoneobeōto go towards, go to meet; to oppose, face; to arrive at, reach, come to; to undertake a task, take charge of, take parthomō̆human, person, man; male human being, man; term of address to male peers, especially by another man: man, fellow, mate,
The English word mortality itself goes back to Latin mors, through mortālitās.
Riddle & Arnold A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon, 1864
mortality
State of being subject to death, mortalitas; mortalis conditio or natura.
Death, mors, interitus, obitus. [Vid: DEATH.]
Frequency of death, numerus mortuorum: there was a great mortality that year, permulti homines eo anno mortui sunt or morte absumti sunt:
Human nature, mortals, homines (plur.).
Quick answer
- What is the Latin word for mortality?
- The usual Latin words for “mortality” are mortālitās, nātūra, mors; also intereō, obeō, homō̆. The right choice depends on the sense; see the distinctions below.
Entry from J. E. Riddle & T. K. Arnold, A Copious and Critical English–Latin Lexicon (rev. C. Anthon, New York: Harper, 1864), digitised by Fergus J. P. Walsh, CC BY-SA 4.0; Latin markup adapted by latindictionary.co.