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Morto is Italian for "dead" or "died" (morta for a woman); è morto means "has died" and introduces the death in a death act.
Morto means dead and is also the past participle of morire, to die. The ending follows the person: morto, morta, morti. È morto and morì both mean died, and the cross † can stand for morto in indexes and notes.
Fu before a name is different: it marks a parent already dead when a record was written. Defunto, the deceased, is a synonym you will also see. Nato morto means stillborn. Death acts are atti di morte, and the plural morti also means the dead.
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