mort(e)

mort(e) (FR ADJ) dead, having ceased to be alive; that which appears to be dead; without activity, lifeless, perfectly still; pertaining to a superseded era. First appears in French in the 10th century, from Latin mortus, mortuus, mori. (Anon., Apollinaire, Baudelaire, Bourget, Debussy, Eluard, Fombeure, Gautier, Louÿs, Mallarmé, Mendès, d'Orléans, Régnier, Silvestre, Verlaine, Vilmorin)