moveo

From Proto-Italic *moweō, from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move”).

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moveō (present infinitive movēre, perfect active mōvī, supine mōtum); second conjugation

1. to move, stir, set in motion

   Synonym: muto

2. to disturb, shake, remove
3. to arouse, excite, promote, produce

   Synonyms: excitō, īnstīgō, īnstinguō, exciō, stimulō, sollicitō, percieō, concieō, cieō, concitō, impellō, īnflammō, urgeō, flammō, mōlior, incendō, adhortor, ērigō

   Antonyms: domō, lēniō, sōpiō, sēdō, dēlēniō, restinguō, plācō, coerceō, mītigō, commītigō, ēlevō, levō, allevō, alleviō

4. to begin, commence, undertake

   Synonyms: incohō, exōrdior, occipiō, incipiō, coepiō, ōrdior, initiō, ineō, ingredior, aggredior, sūmō, committō, exorior

   Antonyms: cessō, subsistō, dēsistō, remittō, trānseō

5. to excite, inspire, influence

   Synonyms: perpellō, suādeō, persuādeō

   movere animum alicuius ― to excite or inspire someone’s mind (for example, enrage him)

6. to present or offer (an oblation or gift)

   Synonyms: dōnō, condōnō, largior, praebeō, offerō, prōferō, sufferō, afferō, polliceor, obiciō

7. to trouble, concern, torment (someone)

   Synonyms: fatīgō, sollicitō, agitō, concitō, disturbō, īnfestō, peragō, irrītō, stimulō, occīdō, versō, agō, angō, ūrō

   Antonym: cōnsōlor

8. to exert, exercise
9. (of plants) to put forth

Nōn moveō means "to stand still."

¹At least one rare poetic syncopated perfect form is attested.

Reflexes of an assumed variant *movĕre:

• “moveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “moveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• moveo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • not to stir from one's place: loco or vestigio se non movere
    
  • to make an impression on the senses: sensus movere (more strongly pellere)
    
  • to raise a laugh: risum movere, concitare
    
  • to move to tears: lacrimas or fletum alicui movere
    
  • to be influenced by, to yield to urgent (abject) entreaty: magnis (infimis) precibus moveri
    
  • to make a man change his opinion: de sententia aliquem deducere, movere
    
  • to be moved by a thing: aliqua re moveri, commoveri
    
  • to be touched with pity: misericordia moveri, capi (De Or. 2. 47)
    
  • to fill a person with astonishment: admirationem alicui movere
    
  • to rouse a person's suspicions: suspicionem movere, excitare, inicere, dare alicui
    
  • to excite a person's wrath: stomachum, bilem alicui movere
    
  • movable, personal property: res, quae moveri possunt; res moventes (Liv. 5. 25. 6)
    
  • to overthrow a person (cf. sect. IX. 6): aliquem gradu movere, depellere or de gradu (statu) deicere
    
  • to expel some one from his tribe: tribu movere aliquem
    
  • to expel from the senate: senatu movere
    
  • to cause a war: bellum facere, movere, excitare
    
  • to begin the march, break up the camp: castra movere
    
  • to drive the enemy from his position: loco movere, depellere, deicere hostem (B. G. 7. 51)
    
• Dizionario Latino, Olivetti

• “moveo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press