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🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

víctima mortal

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bik-ti-ma mor-tal

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Fatality/fəˈtæl.ə.ti/
nounCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #4500 frequency
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"El choque de trenes dejó varias víctimas mortales."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    An occurrence of death resulting from an accident, war, disease, or disaster.

    "The severe storm caused widespread damage, but fortunately, there were no reported fatalities."
  2. 2

    The deadliness or the number of deaths caused by a particular event, disease, or condition.

    "Medical researchers are working to lower the fatality rate of the newly discovered virus."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Late Latin 'fatalitat-', from Latin 'fatalis' meaning 'ordained by destiny', based on 'fatum' (prophecy, doom, death). Entering the English language in the late 15th century, the term originally denoted inevitability or a stroke of fate before shifting by the 17th century to specifically mean death or a disaster resulting in death.

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