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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mo.viˈmen.to/
- Rhymes: -ento
- Hyphenation: mo‧vi‧mén‧to
Etymology 1
From muovere + -mento, perhaps based partly on Medieval Latin mōvimentum, from Latin moveō. Compare French mouvement.
Noun
movimento m (plural movimenti)
- movement
- (music) tempo mark
- Synonym: celerità di esecuzione
- Hyponyms: adagio, andante, allegro, grave, largo, presto
- (music, by extension) movement (division of a larger composition)
- exercise
- motion
- bustle
- clockwork
Etymology 2
Verb
movimento
- first-person singular present indicative of movimentare
Further reading
- movimento in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Ladino
Noun
movimento m (Latin spelling, plural movimentos)
- movement
Latin
Noun
mōvimentō
- dative/ablative singular of mōvimentum
Portuguese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From mover + -imento, perhaps based partly on Medieval Latin mōvimentum, from Latin moveō, from Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- (“to move”).
Noun
movimento m (plural movimentos)
- (uncountable) movement (physical motion)
- Synonyms: deslocação, deslocamento, locomoção, moção, movimentação
- (uncountable) the flow of people or vehicles in a location
- Synonyms: fluxo, movimentação, tráfego
- movement (group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals)
- Synonym: campanha
- (finance) financial transaction
- Synonym: transação
Derived terms
See also
Etymology 2
Verb
movimento
- first-person singular present indicative of movimentar