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Latin
Etymology
commoveō (“move violently, disturb”) + -tiō
Noun
commōtiō f (genitive commōtiōnis); third declension
- motion, movement
- agitation, commotion
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “commotio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “commotio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- commotio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- the emotions, feelings: animi motus, commotio, permotio