mota

See also: möta and mô tả

English

Noun

mota (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of mootah

Anagrams

Galician

Etymology

From Medieval Latin motta.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔta̝/

Noun

mota f (plural motas)

  1. (dated) motte, rampart
    • 1395, Miguel González Garcés (ed.), 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
  2. mound

References

  • “mota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
  • “mota” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
  • “mota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
  • “mota” in Santamarina, Antón (coord.): Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.
  1. ↑ “motte” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Gothic

Romanization

mōta

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐍉𐍄𐌰

Italian

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, related to English mud.

Noun

mota f (plural mote)

  1. mud

Synonyms

Derived terms

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Latin

Participle

mōta

  1. nominative feminine singular of mōtus
  2. nominative neuter plural of mōtus
  3. accusative neuter plural of mōtus
  4. vocative feminine singular of mōtus
  5. vocative neuter plural of mōtus

mōtā

  1. ablative feminine singular of mōtus

References

Lingala

Noun

mota class 1 (plural bato)

  1. man

Portuguese

Noun

mota f (plural motas)

  1. (chiefly Portugal) motorcycle

Synonyms

Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly borrowed from Germanic, cognate to Italian mota, English mud, Dutch modder[1]. Or, possibly from Iberian.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmot̪a]

Noun

mota f (plural motas)

  1. speck (tiny spot)
  2. (uncountable, slang, Mexico) marijuana
  3. fluff, pill

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ Worcester, Joseph Emerson (1910: Worcester's academic dictionary: a new etymological dictionary of the English language, p. 371
  2. ↑ 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

Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian monte

Noun

mota f (plural mote)

  1. heap, pile

Volapük

Noun

mota

  1. genitive singular of mot
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