mote

See also motė, möte, and mõte

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mot, from Old English mot (“grain of sand”)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊt
• Homophones: moat

Noun

mote (plural motes)

1. A small particle; a speck.

   "Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." -Matthew 7:5.

2. A tiny computer for remote sensing. Also known as smartdust.

See also

• floater

Translations

A small particle; a speck

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Czech: smítko (cs) n
• Dutch: stofdeeltje (nl) n, vuiltje (nl) n
• Finnish: hiukkanen (fi), hitunen (fi)
• French: atome (fr) m
• Georgian: მტვერი (ka) (mtveri)
• German: Stäubchen (de) n

• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: ögn (is) f, rykögn (is) f, korn (is) n
• Japanese: ほこり (ja) (hokori), ちり (ja) (chiri), 微粉 (ja) (びふん, bifun)
• Polish: pyłek (pl) m
• Russian: пылинка (ru) (pylínka) f, соринка (ru) (sorínka) f
• Spanish: mota (es) f
• Swedish: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: parçacık (tr), tanecik (tr), zerre (tr)

Etymology 2

From Middle English moten, from Old English mōtan (“to be allowed, be able to, have the opportunity to, be compelled to, may, must”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtaną (“to be able to, have to, be delegated”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to acquire, possess, be in charge of”). Cognate with Dutch moeten (“to have to, must”), German müssen (“to have to, must”), Danish måtte (“might, may”), Ancient Greek μέδω (médō, “to prevail, dominate, rule over”). Related to empty.

Verb

mote

1. (archaic) May or might.
2. Must.

   So mote it be!

Usage notes

• Takes an infinitive without to.

Anagrams

• tome

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Italian

Noun

mote f

1. Plural form of mota

Anagrams

• temo

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Japanese

Romanization

mote

1. See もて

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Latin

Participle

mōte

1. vocative masculine singular of mōtus

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Norwegian

Noun

mote m

1. fashion

Inflection

    Inflection of mote

	indefinite singular	definite singular	indefinite plural	definite plural
Bokmål m	mote	moten	moter	motene
Nynorsk m	mote	moten	motar	motane

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Spanish

Etymology 1

From French or Provençal mot (“saying”).

Noun

mote m (plural motes)

1. nickname
2. motto (heraldry)

Etymology 2

From Quechua mut'i

Noun

mote m (plural motes)

1. pearl barley
2. type of maize grain

Derived terms

• mote de maíz
• mote de trigo

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Volapük

Noun

mote

1. dative singular form of mot