motus

motus

1. plural of motu

• Musto, Mutos, smout

From mot with a fanciful Latinisation in -us.

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.tys/, /mo.tys/

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motus

1. (colloquial) interjection to request silence; hush!, quiet!

   Synonym: silence

   • 2005 September 19, Stéphanie Esposito, “Des candidats se préparent, d'autres s'annoncent”, in La Provence, →ISSN, page 9:

     Quid de Francis Adolphe ? Motus, mais là encore, pas de doute qu'il sera le quatrième candidat.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• motus et bouche cousue

• “motus”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈmoː.tʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈmɔː.tus]

Perfect passive participle of moveō (“to move”). Diachronically from Proto-Italic *mowetos.

mōtus (feminine mōta, neuter mōtum); first/second-declension participle

1. moved, stirred, disturbed, having been moved
2. aroused, excited, begun, inspired, having been aroused
3. troubled, concerned, tormented, having been troubled

First/second-declension adjective.

• immōtus

From moveō +‎ -tus (forming action nouns).

mōtus m (genitive mōtūs); fourth declension

1. a movement, motion

   Synonyms: movimentum, agitatio

2. (by extension) an advance, progress
3. (figuratively) a movement, operation, impulse, passion; disturbance; sensation; emotion
4. (figuratively) a political movement, tumult, commotion, revolt, rebellion

   Synonyms: seditio, insurrectio, inquies, perculsus, tumultus, rebellio, concursus

Fourth-declension noun.

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: moto
• Borrowings:
  • → Portuguese: moto
  • ⇒ French: motile, ⇒ motilité
    • → German: Motilität
    • → English: motile, ⇒ motility
      • → Finnish: motiili
      • → Italian: motilità
      • → Spanish: motilidad
    • → Portuguese: motilidade
    • → Romanian: motilitate

• “motus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “motus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "motus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “motus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • the regular courses of the stars: motus stellarum constantes et rati
    
  • the emotions, feelings: animi motus, commotio, permotio
    
  • to excite emotion: motus excitare in animo (opp. sedare, exstinguere)