Noun: mortar
| Singular | mortar |
| Plural | mortars |
Sample Sentences
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The holy hearth! If any earthly and material thing, or rather a divine idea embodied in brick and mortar, might be supposed to possess the permanence of moral truth, it was this. [1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Fire Worship”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:]
Nouns inflected like mortar
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English morter, from Old French mortier, from Latin mortārium. Doublet of mortarium. See: Middle English Nouns '
morter', Latin Nouns '
mortārium'.
Verbs referencing "mortar"
Spanish Nouns
mortero, Finnish Nouns
mortteli.