locomotion

English

Etymology

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From French locomotion, from Latin locō (literally “from a place”) (ablative of locus (“place”)) + motionem (“motion, a moving”) (nominative mōtio), from Latin movēre, present active infinitive of moveō (“move; change, exchange, go in or out, quit”), from Proto-Indo-European *mew- (“to move, drive”)

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -əʊʃən

Noun

locomotion (usually uncountable, plural locomotions)

1. The ability to move from place to place, or the act of doing so.
2. (biology) Self-powered motion by which a whole organism changes its location through walking, running, jumping, crawling, swimming or flying.
3. (countable) A dance, originally popular in the 1960s, in which the arms are used to mimic the motion of the connecting rods of a steam locomotive.

Derived terms

• locomotive
• locomotor

Related terms

Category English terms derived from the Maaka root locomotion- not found

Translations

ability to move

• Dutch: voortbeweging (nl)
• French: locomotion (fr) f
• Georgian: გადაადგილება (gadaadgileba)
• Ido: lokomoco (io)
• Irish: féinghluaiseacht f
• Italian: locomozione (it) f
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• Portuguese: locomoção (pt) f
• Russian: ход (ru) m (xod)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: локомоција f

  Roman: lokomocija (sh) f

• Spanish: locomoción (es) f

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔ.kɔ.mɔ.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

locomotion f (plural locomotions)

1. locomotion

Derived terms

• locomoteur
• locomotif

Further reading

• “locomotion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.