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Latin
Etymology
Present active participle of moveō (“move, disturb”)
Participle
movēns (genitive moventis); third-declension one-termination participle
- moving
- exciting, commencing
Declension
Third-declension participle.
1When used purely as an adjective.
References
- “movens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “movens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- movens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- movable, personal property: res, quae moveri possunt; res moventes (Liv. 5. 25. 6)