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English
Etymology
From Latin mōmentum. Doublet of moment and movement.
Pronunciation
Noun
momentum (countable and uncountable, plural momentums or momenta)
- (physics) Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its masses and velocities.
- (physics) Strength or force gained by motion or movement.
- The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events; a moment.
1843, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mosses from an Old Manse, The Old Apple Dealer:The travellers swarm forth from the cars. All are full of the momentum which they have caught from their mode of conveyance.
1882, Thomas Hardy, chapter II, in Two on a Tower. A Romance. [...] In Three Volumes, volume II, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, , →OCLC, page 31:Their intention to become husband and wife, at first halting and timorous, had accumulated momentum with the lapse of hours, till it now bore down every obstacle in its course.
2013 September 14, Jane Shilling, “The Golden Thread: the Story of Writing, by Ewan Clayton, review [print edition: Illuminating language]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), page R29:Though his account of written communication over the past 5,000 years necessarily has a powerful forward momentum, his diversions down the fascinating byways of the subject are irresistible ...
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Translations
product of mass and velocity
- Bulgarian: импулс (bg) m (impuls)
- Catalan: impuls (ca) m, embranzida (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 動量/动量 (zh) (dòngliàng)
- Czech: hybnost f
- Danish: impuls c, bevægelsesmængde c
- Dutch: impuls (nl) m
- Esperanto: movokvanto
- Finnish: liikemäärä (fi) (literally “quantity of movement”)
- French: quantité de mouvement (fr)
- Georgian: მოძრაობის რაოდენობა (moʒraobis raodenoba) (Physics), ინერცია (inercia) (Physics), მოძრაობის სიჩქარე (moʒraobis sičkare) (Physics), იმპულსი (imṗulsi) (Physics)
- German: Impuls (de) m, Bewegungsmenge f, Bewegungsgröße f
- Greek: ορμή (el) f (ormí)
- Hebrew: תֶּנַע m (téna') (physics)
- Hindi: संवेग (hi) m (samveg)
- Hungarian: lendület (hu)
- Ido: momento (io)
- Indonesian: impuls (id), momentum (id), pusa (id)
- Italian: spinta (it) f, impulso (it) m, momento (it) m
- Japanese: 運動量 (ja) (うんどうりょう, undōryō)
- Korean: 운동량 (undongnyang)
- Malayalam: ആക്കം (ml) (ākkaṁ), സംവേഗം (ml) (saṁvēgaṁ)
- Manx: çhionney m
- Maori: torohaki
- Mongolian: хөдөлгөөний тоо (хэмжээ) (xödölgöönii too (xemžee), literally “quantity of movement”), импульс (impulʹs)
- Persian: تکانه
- Polish: pęd (pl) m
- Portuguese: momento (pt) m
- Russian: и́мпульс (ru) m (ímpulʹs), коли́чество движе́ния n (kolíčestvo dvižénija, literally “quantity of movement”)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: (Serbia) ѝмпулс, (Croatia) количѝна ги́ба̄ња, (Bosnia)количѝна кре́та̄ња
- Roman: (Serbia) ìmpuls (sh), (Croatia) količìna gíbānja (literally “quantity of movement”), (Bosnia) količìna krétānja (literally “quantity of movement”)
- Slovak: hybnosť f
- Spanish: cantidad de movimiento (literally “quantity of movement”), ímpetu (es)
- Swedish: rörelsemängd (sv) c
- Tagalog: dagsa
- Thai: โมเมนตัม (moo-men-dtâm)
- Turkish: itki (tr), momentum (tr)
- Vietnamese: động lượng
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impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events
- Bulgarian: тласък (bg) m (tlasǎk), тласък (bg) m (tlasǎk), движеща сила f (dvižešta sila)
- Catalan: impuls (ca), embranzida (ca) f
- Dutch: vaart (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: elano
- Finnish: vauhti (fi), voima (fi)
- French: élan (fr)
- Georgian: იმპულსი (imṗulsi), ბიძგი (biʒgi), მამოძრავებელი ძალა (mamoʒravebeli ʒala)
- German: Schwung (de) m, Wucht (de) f, Schwungkraft f, Moment (de) n
- Italian: slancio (it) m, momento (it) m, impulso (it), impeto (it)
- Maori: torohaki
- Polish: rozmach (pl)
- Portuguese: ímpeto (pt) m, impulso (pt)
- Romagnol: abrìv m
- Russian: и́мпульс (ru) m (ímpulʹs), толчо́к (ru) m (tolčók), дви́жущая си́ла (ru) f (dvížuščaja síla)
- Serbo-Croatian: impuls (sh), impetus (sh)
- Spanish: ímpetu (es), impulso (es)
- Vietnamese: đà (vi)
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See also
Indonesian
Etymology
Internationalism, learned borrowing from Latin mōmentum.
Pronunciation
Noun
momentum (plural momentum-momentum, first-person possessive momentumku, second-person possessive momentummu, third-person possessive momentumnya)
- momentum:
- (mechanics) of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its masses and velocities.
- Synonyms: impuls, pusa
- moment
- chance
- Synonyms: kans, kesempatan
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Further reading
Latin
Etymology
From *movimentum (compare later Medieval Latin movimentum), from Proto-Italic *mowementom. Equivalent to moveō (“move, set in motion; excite”) + -mentum (“suffix used to forming nouns from verbs”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mōmentum n (genitive mōmentī); second declension
- movement, motion, impulse; course
- change, revolution, movement, disturbance
- particle, part, point
- (of time) brief space, moment (in time), short time
- Synonym: vestīgium
- cause, circumstance
- weight, influence, importance
- Synonyms: importantia, gravitās, pondus, opportūnitās
- mōmentum facere/habere ― to have importance, to exercise influence
- maximē mōmentī ― most important
- (New Latin, physics) momentum, quantity of motion
- (New Latin, physics, mechanics) moment (product of a distance and physical quantity)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “momentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “momentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- momentum in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024) Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
- momentum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- momentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- at the important moment: momento temporis
- important results are often produced by trivial causes: ex parvis saepe magnarum rerum momenta pendent
- to be of great (no) importance: magni (nullius) momenti esse
- to determine the issue of; to turn the scale: momentum afferre ad aliquid