mourront

Mourront is the form mourront—the third-person plural future tense of the French verb mourir, meaning “they will die.” In standard French, it appears in sentences such as Ils mourront demain. Beyond its grammatical use, the sequence mourront has been adopted in some works of fiction and worldbuilding as a stylized term with variable meanings.

Etymology and linguistic note: Mourront derives from the verb mourir, which means to die. Mourir itself comes from the Latin morī, related to mors and mort-, meaning death. The appearance of mourront in non-linguistic contexts is a separate, often fictional, construction rather than a standard lexical item in French.

Usage in fiction and culture: In speculative and fantasy settings, mourront is sometimes treated as a proper noun, a prophecy, a ritual name, or an incantation. Writers may use it to evoke inevitability, doom, or a foretold fate without specifying a person or agent of death. The interpretation and significance of mourront thus vary by work and author, serving as a thematic device rather than a fixed concept.

See also: mourir, French language, future simple, death in literature.