trompe-la-mort
French
noun
Definitions
- daredevil (a person who risks his life)
Etymology
Affix from French tromper (cheat, deceive) + French la (the, war)+ French mort (death, dead).
Origin
French
mort
Gloss
death, dead
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Other
Kanji
死
Emoji
☠️ ⚰️ ⚱️ 💀
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- La Porte English
- LaPorte County English
- Lapeer County English
- mort English
- mortpay English
- trompement English
- la Italian
- monsù Italian
- morte Italian
- lacrosse Dutch, Flemish
- La Rochelle French
- Labelle French
- Lacaille French
- Lafontaine French
- Lamotte French
- Laval French
- Lavoie French
- détromper French
- homme-mort French
- la French
- la barbe French
- lacrosse French
- laquelle French
- mort French
- mortinaissance French
- parabellum French
- tromper French
- tromperie French
- *mer- Proto-Indo-European
- lacrosse Norwegian Bokmål
- lacrosse Norwegian Nynorsk
- mort Old French
- la Esperanto
- morto Esperanto
- trompi Esperanto
- la Middle French
- tromper Middle French
- lachè Haitian, Haitian Creole
- lakou Haitian, Haitian Creole
- lamè Haitian, Haitian Creole
- lakanpagn Mauritian Creole
- monsù Piedmontese
- la Michif