Etymology

alamort

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Today it means: To the death; mortally. Full definition →

Middle French à la mort
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The story

  1. Middle French · borrowed fromà la mort“to the death”
  2. English todayalamort

From Middle French à la mort (“to the death”). Compare amort.

Words from the same roots

Middle Frenchà la mort all →

amort

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.