English
alamort
Alamort comes from Middle French à la mort ‘to the death’.
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600à la mort‘to the death’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1590–1592alamort
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Middle Frenchc. 1400–1600à la mort‘to the death’
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1590–1592alamort
Earliest quotation: c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew: “How fares my Kate, what ſweeting all a-mort?”
Every English word from Middle French à la mort
Today it means
adv To the death; mortally.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle French à la mort / alamort