mortar
English
/ˈmɔːtə(ɹ)/
noun
Definitions
- (uncountable) A mixture of lime or cement, sand and water used for bonding building blocks.
- (countable) A muzzle-loading, indirect fire weapon with a tube length of 10 to 20 calibers and designed to lob shells at very steep trajectories.
- (countable) A hollow vessel used to pound, crush, rub, grind or mix ingredients with a pestle.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English morter derived from Old French mortier derived from Latin mortārium (mortar).
Origin
Latin
mortārium
Gloss
mortar
Concept
Semantic Field
Food and drink
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- board English
- micromortar English
- mortarboard English
- mortarless English
- mortarlike English
- mortarman English
- mortteli Finnish
- mortārium Latin
- mortaio Italian
- mortier French
- morter Norwegian Bokmål
- mortel Swedish
- morter Norwegian Nynorsk
- morter Middle English
- moždíř Czech
- mortier Old French
- morter Catalan, Valencian
- morteiro Galician
- mortar Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- mortar Indonesian
- mortel Middle Dutch
- morsāri Old High German
- mortier Middle French
- mortâr Friulian