morto-vivo

Portuguese

Etymology

Literally, “dead-alive”, or more loosely translated as “both dead and alive”.

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʁ.tu ˈvi.vu/ [ˈmoh.tu ˈvi.vu]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾ.tu ˈvi.vu/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʁ.tu ˈvi.vu/ [ˈmoχ.tu ˈvi.vu]
- (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɻ.tu ˈvi.vu/
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈmoʁ.to ˈvi.vo/ [ˈmoh.to ˈvi.vo]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾ.tu ˈvi.vu/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈmoɾ.tu ˈbi.bu/ [ˈmoɾ.tu ˈβi.βu]

Hyphenation: mor‧to‧-vi‧vo

Noun

morto-vivo m (plural mortos-vivos, feminine morta-viva, feminine plural morta-vivas, metaphonic)

(fiction) zombie, an undead person or creature
Synonym: zombie

Further reading

“morto-vivo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
“morto-vivo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026