English
mortarium
Mortarium comes from Latin mortārium ‘mortar’.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmortārium‘mortar’
- Englishtodaymortarium
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEmortārium‘mortar’
- Englishtodaymortarium
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *mer- ‘to die’
remember, march, murder, marine, mere, nightmare, marsh, maritime, mare, mortality, muller, mara, immortal, moor, morbid, ambrosia, morn, mortuary, marinate, maar, marinara, moribund, cormorant, mortification, mortician, 59 more
through Latin mortārium ‘mortar’
Today it means
noun A kind of mortar used by ancient Romans for grinding.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin mortārium / mortarium