mota

mota (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of mootah

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

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

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

mota f (plural motes)

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

• castell de mota

• “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.

From Medieval Latin motta.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔta̝/

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

• A Mótega
• Mota

• “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.

mōta

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐍉𐍄𐌰

From English motor.

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

mōtā̀ f (plural mōtōcī, possessed form mōtàr̃)

1. automobile, car

Of Germanic origin, related to English mud.

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

mota f (plural mote)

1. mud

   Synonym: fango

• moticchio
• motiglio
• motoso

• Toma, toma

mōta

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

mōtā

1. ablative feminine singular of mōtus

• 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)

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

mota

1. third-person singular present of motać

• Rhymes: -ɔtɐ
• Hyphenation: mo‧ta

mota f (plural motas)

1. (chiefly Portugal) motorcycle

   Synonyms: moto, motocicleta

Borrowed from German Motte.

mota f

1. moth (insect)

   Hypernym: ôwad

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

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

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

• motear
• motero
• motudo

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

Borrowed from English motor.

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mota (n class, plural mota)

1. motor, engine

Compare Italian monte

mota f (plural mote)

1. heap, pile

mota

1. genitive singular of mot