motor

See also: Motor

English

An electric motor.

Etymology

From Latin moto (“I set in motion”).

Pronunciation

Noun

motor (plural motors)

  1. A machine or device that converts any form of energy into mechanical energy, or imparts motion.
  2. (colloquial) A motor car, or automobile.
    Nice motor!
    • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:
      It was flood-tide along Fifth Avenue; motor, brougham, and victoria swept by on the glittering current; pretty women glanced out from limousine and tonneau; young men of his own type, silk-hatted, frock-coated, the crooks of their walking sticks tucked up under their left arms, passed on the Park side.
  3. (figuratively) A source of power for something; an inspiration; a driving force.
  4. Any protein capable of converting chemical energy into mechanical work.
  5. (Christianity, archaic, poetic) The controller or prime mover of the universe; God.
  6. (prison slang) The fermenting mass of fruit that is the basis of pruno, or "prison wine".

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Translations

Adjective

motor (not comparable)

  1. (biology) relating to the ability to move
    She has excellent motor skills.
  2. Relating to motor cars
    Motor insurance is expensive for youngsters.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

motor (third-person singular simple present motors, present participle motoring, simple past and past participle motored)

  1. (dated) To make a journey by motor vehicle; to drive.
    On Saturday we motored down to Plymouth.
  2. (informal) To move at a brisk pace.
    Sales were slow at first, but now things are really motoring.
  3. (slang) To leave.
    I gotta motor.

References

Anagrams

Asturian

Noun

motor m (plural motores)

  1. engine, motor (mechanical device)

Catalan

Pronunciation

  • (Balearic) IPA(key): /moˈto/
  • (Central) IPA(key): /muˈtor/
  • (Valencian) IPA(key): /moˈtoɾ/
  • Rhymes: -oɾ

Adjective

motor (feminine motora, masculine plural motors, feminine plural motores)

  1. motor

Noun

motor m (plural motors)

  1. motor

Czech

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmotor/
  • audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -otor

Noun

motor m

  1. engine, motor

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

  • motor in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
  • motor in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

Danish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moːtɔr/, [ˈmoːtˢɒ]

Noun

motor c (singular definite motoren, plural indefinite motorer)

  1. motor, engine

Inflection

Derived terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmoːtɔr/, /ˈmoːtər/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -oːtɔr, -oːtər
  • Hyphenation: mo‧tor

Noun

motor m (plural motoren or motors, diminutive motortje n)

  1. engine (mechanical device)
  2. (short for motorrijwiel) motorbike

Derived terms

Hungarian

Etymology

From English motor or German Motor, from Latin motor, moto (“I set in motion”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmotor]
  • Audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: mo‧tor

Noun

motor (plural motorok)

  1. engine, motor

Declension

Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative motor motorok
accusative motort motorokat
dative motornak motoroknak
instrumental motorral motorokkal
causal-final motorért motorokért
translative motorrá motorokká
terminative motorig motorokig
essive-formal motorként motorokként
essive-modal — —
inessive motorban motorokban
superessive motoron motorokon
adessive motornál motoroknál
illative motorba motorokba
sublative motorra motorokra
allative motorhoz motorokhoz
elative motorból motorokból
delative motorról motorokról
ablative motortól motoroktól
Possessive forms of motor
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. motorom motorjaim
2nd person sing. motorod motorjaid
3rd person sing. motorja motorjai
1st person plural motorunk motorjaink
2nd person plural motorotok motorjaitok
3rd person plural motorjuk motorjaik

Derived terms

References

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch motor.

Noun

motor

  1. engine

Synonyms

Interlingua

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moˈtor/

Noun

motor (plural motores)

  1. motor

Latin

Verb

mōtor

  1. first-person singular present passive indicative of mōtō

References

  • motor in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • motor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

motor m (definite singular motoren, indefinite plural motorer, definite plural motorene)

  1. engine, motor

Derived terms

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

motor m (definite singular motoren, indefinite plural motorar, definite plural motorane)

  1. engine, motor

Derived terms

Polish

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmɔt̪ɔr/
  • Audio(file)

Noun

motor m inan

  1. (colloquial) motorcycle
  2. engine

Declension

Synonyms

Portuguese

Etymology

From French moteur, from Latin motor.

Pronunciation

Adjective

motor m (feminine singular motora, masculine plural motores, feminine plural motoras, comparable)

  1. motive

Noun

motor m (plural motores)

  1. motor
  2. engine

Romanian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moˈtor/

Noun

motor n (plural motoare)

  1. engine

Declension

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Latin motor.

Noun

mòtōr m (Cyrillic spelling мо̀то̄р)

  1. engine, motor
  2. (colloquial) motorcycle

Declension

Derived terms

  • mòtōrnī

Slovene

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈmóːtɔr/
  • Tonal orthography: mọ̑tor

Noun

mótor m inan (genitive mótorja, nominative plural mótorji)

  1. engine

Declension

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin motor.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /moˈtoɾ/, [moˈt̪oɾ]

Adjective

motor (feminine singular motora, masculine plural motores, feminine plural motoras)

  1. moving

Noun

motor m (plural motores)

  1. engine

Further reading

Swedish

Pronunciation

  • audio(file)

Noun

motor c

  1. engine, motor

Declension

Declension of motor 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative motor motorn motorer motorerna
Genitive motors motorns motorers motorernas

Derived terms

Turkish

Noun

motor (definite accusative motoru, plural motorlar)

  1. engine (mechanical device)

Declension

Inflection
Nominative motor
Definite accusative motoru
Singular Plural
Nominative motor motorlar
Definite accusative motoru motorları
Dative motora motorlara
Locative motorda motorlarda
Ablative motordan motorlardan
Genitive motorun motorların
Possessive forms
Singular Plural
1st singular motorum motorlarım
2nd singular motorun motorların
3rd singular motoru motorları
1st plural motorumuz motorlarımız
2nd plural motorunuz motorlarınız
3rd plural motorları motorları


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Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian motore

Noun

motor m (plural motori) or motor m (plural moturi)

  1. motor, engine
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