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English
Noun
mota (uncountable)
- Alternative form of mootah
Anagrams
Basque
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin monētam (“mint, money”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mota inan
- type, kind, class
- (taxonomy) species
- Synonym: espezie
Declension
Declension of mota (inanimate, ending in -a)
Further reading
- “mota”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy], Euskaltzaindia
- “mota”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Medieval Latin mota (“a mound, hill”), of Germanic origin, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô. Compare French motte.
Pronunciation
Noun
mota f (plural motes)
- mound, hillock
- (historical) motte
- clod, block of soil
- hummock, tussock
- levee
Derived terms
Further reading
Galician
Etymology
From Medieval Latin motta.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
mota f (plural motas)
- (dated) motte, rampart
1395, Miguel González Garcés, editor, Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media, A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:que o dicto martin bezerra e a sua moller façan tirar et derribar todos los penedos et pedras de mota que estan cabo da dicta casa sobre la terra os que poderen tirar con palancos de ferro et de madeyro et a maos de omes et que os tiren da mota et que os lançen contra o rrio et façan a mota chaa- the aforementioned Martin Becerra and his wife should order the toppling of every boulder and every stone of the motte which is by the aforementioned house, with iron levers, and wood levers, and by the hands of men; they should be removed from the motte and thrown into the river, and they should flatten the motte
- mound
Derived terms
References
- Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, Ana Isabel Boullón Agrelo (2006–2022) “mota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “mota”, in Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: ILG
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “mota”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “mota”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
Gothic
Romanization
mōta
- Romanization of 𐌼𐍉𐍄𐌰
Hausa
Etymology
From English motor.
Pronunciation
Noun
mōtā̀ f (plural mōtōcī, possessed form mōtàr̃)
- automobile, car
Italian
Etymology
From Latin maltha (“mineral pitch”). The original appears to have vocalized to in pre-literary Tuscan, with the resulting regularly yielding , as in Latin aurum (“gold”) > Italian òro. Doublet of malta. Less probably of Germanic origin, related to English mud.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.ta/
- Rhymes: -ɔta
- Hyphenation: mò‧ta
Noun
mota f (plural mote)
- mud
- Synonym: fango
Derived terms
References
- Alberto Nocentini, Alessandro Parenti, “l'Etimologico — Vocabolario della lingua italiana”, Le Monnier, 2010, →ISBN
Anagrams
Kari'na
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *mota; compare Apalaí mota, Trió mota, Wayana mota, Waiwai mota, Akawaio mota, Pemon mota, Ye'kwana mota, Yao (South America) hoomotaly.
Pronunciation
Noun
mota (possessed motary)
- shoulder
References
- Courtz, Hendrik (2008) A Carib grammar and dictionary, Toronto: Magoria Books, →ISBN, page 320
- Ahlbrinck, Willem (1931) “motarï”, in Encyclopaedie der Karaïben, Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, page 305; republished as Willem Ahlbrinck, Doude van Herwijnen, transl., L'Encyclopédie des Caraïbes, Paris, 1956, page 297
Latin
Participle
mōta
- inflection of mōtus:
- nominative/vocative feminine singular
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural
Participle
mōtā
- ablative feminine singular of mōtus
References
Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.ta/
- Rhymes: -ɔta
- Syllabification: mo‧ta
Verb
mota
- third-person singular present of motać
Portuguese
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
- Hyphenation: mo‧ta
Noun
mota f (plural motas)
- (chiefly Portugal) motorcycle
- Synonyms: moto, motocicleta
Silesian
Etymology
Borrowed from German Motte.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmɔ.ta/
- Rhymes: -ɔta
- Syllabification: mo‧ta
Noun
mota f
- moth (insect)
- Hypernym: ôwada
Further reading
Spanish
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly borrowed from Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *muþraz (“sediment”), cognate to Italian mota, English mud, Dutch modder.[1] Or, possibly from Iberian.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈmota/
- Rhymes: -ota
- Syllabification: mo‧ta
Noun
mota f (plural motas)
- speck (tiny spot or particle), mote
- Synonyms: partícula, migaja, ápice
- (uncountable, slang, Latin America) marijuana
- Synonyms: bareta, hierba, macoña, maría, marimba, pasto
- (textile) pill, fluff
Derived terms
References
- ^ Worcester, Joseph Emerson (1910: Worcester's academic dictionary: a new etymological dictionary of the English language, p. 371
- ^ Roberts, Edward A. (2014) A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Spanish Language with Families of Words based on Indo-European Roots, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 227
Further reading
Swahili
Etymology
Borrowed from English motor.
Pronunciation
Noun
mota (n class, plural mota)
- motor, engine
Swedish
Verb
mota (present motar, preterite motade, supine motat, imperative mota)
- to (physically) prevent from going farther (despite attempts), to block
Den arga mannen försökte ta sig in på puben, men motades av dörrvakterna- The angry man tried to enter the pub, but was blocked by the bouncers
- (with a particle like bort (“away”) or undan (“away”)) to (physically) drive away
Livvakterna motade bort paparazzifotograferna- The bodyguards pushed (drove (physically)) the paparazzi away
Conjugation
Conjugation of mota (weak)
Derived terms
References
Tetum
Noun
mota
- river
References
Venetan
Etymology
Compare Italian monte
Noun
mota f (plural mote)
- heap, pile
Volapük
Noun
mota
- genitive singular of mot
Ye'kwana
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *mota (“shoulder”).
Pronunciation
Noun
mota (obligatorily possessed; possessed motai)
- shoulder
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 115