motif
French
noun
Definitions
- motive
- motif
- pattern, design
Etymology
Inherited from Latin mōtivus.
Origin
Latin
mōtivus
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- antimotif English
- biomotif English
- intermotif English
- minimotif English
- motif English
- motifeme English
- motifless English
- motivic English
- motivo English
- phosphomotif English
- pseudomotif English
- submotif English
- supermotif English
- motiivi Finnish
- motivoida Finnish
- locō Latin
- motivum Latin
- motivus Latin
- motīvus Latin
- mōtivus Latin
- mōtus Latin
- mōtīvus Latin
- Motiv German
- Tatmotiv German
- motivieren German
- motívum Hungarian
- motivare Italian
- motivo Italian
- motief Dutch, Flemish
- démotiver French
- motivation French
- motiver French
- motivique French
- motiviquement French
- remotiver French
- surmotiver French
- мотив Russian
- *mew- Proto-Indo-European
- motiv Norwegian Bokmål
- motivere Norwegian Bokmål
- motivo Portuguese
- motiv Swedish
- motivera Swedish
- motyw Polish
- motiv Norwegian Nynorsk
- motivera Norwegian Nynorsk
- motiv Danish
- motif Old French
- motivo Esperanto
- motiu Catalan, Valencian
- motiv Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- motijf Middle Dutch
- mô-típ Vietnamese
- motif Middle French
- мотив Macedonian
- motiu Occitan