motivus
Latin
Etymology
From mōtus + -ivus.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /moːˈtiː.u̯us/, [moːˈt̪iːu̯ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /moˈti.vus/, [moˈt̪iːvus]
Adjective
mōtīvus (feminine mōtīva, neuter mōtīvum); first/second-declension adjective
- stirred
- moved
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
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Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
Nominative | mōtīvus | mōtīva | mōtīvum | mōtīvī | mōtīvae | mōtīva | |
Genitive | mōtīvī | mōtīvae | mōtīvī | mōtīvōrum | mōtīvārum | mōtīvōrum | |
Dative | mōtīvō | mōtīvō | mōtīvīs | ||||
Accusative | mōtīvum | mōtīvam | mōtīvum | mōtīvōs | mōtīvās | mōtīva | |
Ablative | mōtīvō | mōtīvā | mōtīvō | mōtīvīs | |||
Vocative | mōtīve | mōtīva | mōtīvum | mōtīvī | mōtīvae | mōtīva |
Descendants
- Catalan: motiu
- Italian: motivo
- → Middle French: motif
- French: motif
- → Danish: motiv
- → English: motif
- → German: Motiv
- → Romanian: motiv
- → Norwegian Bokmål: motiv
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: motiv
- → Swedish: motiv
- → Turkish: motif
- → Middle Dutch: motijf
- Dutch: motief
- Afrikaans: motief
- → Indonesian: motif
- Dutch: motief
- → Middle English: motif
- English: motive
- Scots: motive
- French: motif
- Occitan: motiu
- Portuguese: motivo
- Romanian: motiv
- Spanish: motivo
References
- motivus 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)