motus

== English == === Noun === motus plural of motu === Anagrams === Musto, Mutos, smout == French == === Etymology === From mot with a fanciful Latinisation in -us. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /mɔ.tys/, /mo.tys/ === Interjection === motus (colloquial) interjection to request silence; hush!, quiet! Synonym: silence ==== Derived terms ==== motus et bouche cousue === Further reading === “motus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012 == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈmoː.tʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈmɔː.tus] === Etymology 1 === Perfect passive participle of moveō (“to move”). Diachronically from Proto-Italic *mowetos. ==== Participle ==== mōtus (feminine mōta, neuter mōtum); first/second-declension participle moved, stirred, disturbed, having been moved aroused, excited, begun, inspired, having been aroused troubled, concerned, tormented, having been troubled ===== Declension ===== First/second-declension adjective. ===== Derived terms ===== immōtus === Etymology 2 === From moveō + -tus (forming action nouns). ==== Noun ==== mōtus m (genitive mōtūs); fourth declension a movement, motion Synonyms: movimentum, agitatio (by extension) an advance, progress (figuratively) a movement, operation, impulse, passion; disturbance; sensation; emotion (figuratively) a political movement, tumult, commotion, revolt, rebellion Synonyms: seditio, insurrectio, inquies, perculsus, tumultus, rebellio, concursus ===== Declension ===== Fourth-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== Italo-Romance: Italian: moto Borrowings: → Portuguese: moto ⇒ French: motile, ⇒ motilité → German: Motilität → English: motile, ⇒ motility → Finnish: motiili → Italian: motilità → Spanish: motilidad → Portuguese: motilidade → Romanian: motilitate === References === “motus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “motus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "motus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “motus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.