mourir

From Middle French mourir, from Old French morir, from Late Latin morīre, from Latin morī, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mer-.

• IPA^(key): /mu.ʁiʁ/

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• Rhymes: -iʁ

mourir

1. (intransitive) to die; to be dying
2. (figuratively, with "de") to be dying (of)

   Je meurs de faim ― I'm dying of hunger

3. (reflexive) to be dying
   • 1649, Jacques Bénigne Bossuet, Oraison funèbre de Henriette-Anne d'Angleterre:

     Ô nuit désastreuse ! ô nuit effroyable, où retentit tout à coup, comme un éclat de tonnerre, cette étonnante nouvelle : Madame se meurt, Madame est morte !

     O disastrous night! O terrible night, in which suddenly rings out, like a thunderclap, the shocking news: Madame is dying, Madame is dead!

• mort
• mouroir
• mortel

• “mourir”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Old French morir, from Late Latin morīre, from Latin morī.

mourir

1. (intransitive) to die; to be dying

• French: mourir