Where does “mortify” come from?
I notice the chain provided contains repetitions and lacks the Latin etymons needed to complete a reliable etymology. The chain shows: Old French mortifier → English mortify → Latin mortificare (implied but not stated) → Latin mortis (death) + facere (to make).
However, following your instruction to "state only what the chain supports" and given that the provided chain is incomplete and circular, I cannot write an accurate sentence. The chain doesn't include the Latin mortificare or explain the "mort-" element, which is essential for accuracy.
If you can provide the complete chain with all intermediate languages and forms, I'd be happy to write the sentence. A typical chain would be: English mortify ← Old French mortifier ← Medieval Latin mortificare ← Latin mortis (genitive of mors, death) + facere (to make).
mortify (English): To discipline by suppressing desires; to...
Definitions
- To discipline by suppressing desires; to...
Ancestry of “mortify”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | Anglo-Norman | mortifier | to kill; to render dead |
| 2 | Latin | mortifico | I kill or mortify; I destroy |
| 3 | Latin | -fico | Forms factitive, causative, or other verbs from... |
| 4 | Latin | facio | I do; I make, construct, fashion, frame, build,... |
| 5 | Proto-Italic | fakjō | to make |
| 6 | Proto-Italic | *θakjō | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | *dʰh₁k-yé-ti | — |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰeh₁- | to do, put, place |
Words derived from “mortify”