motio

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *mowetjō. Equivalent to moveō +‎ -tiō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.ti.oː/, [ˈmoːt̪ioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmot.t͡si.o/, [ˈmɔt̪ː͡s̪io]

Nomen

mōtiō f (genitive mōtiōnis); third declension

1. motion, movement
2. shivering
3. expedition, military undertaking

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	mōtiō	mōtiōnēs
Genitive	mōtiōnis	mōtiōnum
Dative	mōtiōnī	mōtiōnibus
Accusative	mōtiōnem	mōtiōnēs
Ablative	mōtiōne	mōtiōnibus
Vocative	mōtiō	mōtiōnēs

Related terms

• moveō

Descendants

• Catalan: moció
• English: motion
• French: motion
• Galician: moción
• Italian: mozione
• Norman: motion (Jersey)
• Occitan: mocion
• Portuguese: moção
• Romanian: moțiune
• Sicilian: musioni
• Spanish: moción

References

• “motio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “motio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• motio 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)
• motio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.