mota

mota

See also: Mota, motá, móta, möta, møta, mǿta, mơta, and mô tả

English

Noun

mota (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of mootah

Anagrams

• Amto, Mato, TMAO, atmo, atom, moat, toma

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Catalan

Etymology

From Medieval Latin mota (“a mound, hill”), of Germanic origin, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.tə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ta/

Noun

mota f (plural motes)

1. mound, hillock
2. (historical) motte
3. clod, block of soil
4. hummock, tussock
5. levee

Derived terms

• castell de mota

Further reading

• “mota” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “mota” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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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

Derived terms

• A Mótega
• Mota

References

• “mota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “mota” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “mota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “mota” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

1. “motte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Gothic

Romanization

mōta

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐍉𐍄𐌰

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Hausa

Etymology

From English motor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /móː.tàː/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [móː.tàː]

Noun

mōtā̀ f (plural mōtōcī, possessed form mōtàr̃)

1. automobile, car

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Italian

Etymology

Of Germanic origin, related to English mud.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Hyphenation: mò‧ta

Noun

mota f (plural mote)

1. mud

   Synonym: fango

Derived terms

• moticchio
• motiglio
• motoso

Anagrams

• Toma, toma

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Latin

Participle

mōta

1. inflection of mōtus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

Participle

mōtā

1. ablative feminine singular of mōtus

References

• mota in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

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Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ta/
• Rhymes: -ɔta
• Syllabification: mo‧ta

Verb

mota

1. third-person singular present of motać

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.tɐ/

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
• Hyphenation: mo‧ta

Noun

mota f (plural motas)

1. (chiefly Portugal) motorcycle

   Synonyms: moto, motocicleta

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Silesian

Etymology

Borrowed from German Motte.

Noun

mota f

1. moth (insect)

   Hypernym: ôwad

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Spanish

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly borrowed from Germanic, from Proto-Germanic *muþraz (“sediment”), cognate to Italian mota, English mud, Dutch modder[1]. Or, possibly from Iberian.[2]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈmota/ [ˈmo.t̪a]
• Rhymes: -ota
• Syllabification: mo‧ta

Noun

mota f (plural motas)

1. speck (tiny spot or particle), mote

   Synonyms: partícula, migaja, ápice

2. (uncountable, slang, Latin America) marijuana

   Synonyms: bareta, hierba, macoña, maría, marimba, pasto

3. (textile) pill, fluff

Derived terms

• motear
• motero
• motudo

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

Further reading

• “mota”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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Swahili

Etymology

Borrowed from English motor.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Kenya)

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Noun

mota (n class, plural mota)

1. motor, engine

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Venetian

Etymology

Compare Italian monte

Noun

mota f (plural mote)

1. heap, pile

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Volapük

Noun

mota

1. genitive singular of mot