Word Origin Summary

Mōtivus is attested in Vulgar Latin. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• lokomotif

  Turkish · borrowed from

• lokomotiv

  Norwegian Nynorsk · borrowed from

• lokomotivo

  Esperanto · derived from

• locomotief

  Dutch · borrowed from

• locomotif

  French · derived from

• lokomotiv

  Danish · derived from

• lokomotiv

  Norwegian Bokmål · borrowed from

• locomotive

  English · derived from

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