mote
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -əʊt
- Homophone: moat
Etymology 1
From Middle English mot, from Old English mot (“grain of sand; mote; atom”), but of uncertain ultimate origin. Sometimes linked to Spanish mota (“speck”) and English mud.[1].
Compare West Frisian mot (“peat dust”), Dutch mot (“dust from turf; sawdust; grit”), Norwegian mutt (“speck; mote; splinter; chip”).
Noun
mote (plural motes)
- A small particle; a speck.
- Template:RQ:Authorized Version
- 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.
- a. 1729 Edward Taylor, "Meditation. Joh. 14.2. I go to prepare a place for you":
- What shall a Mote up to a Monarch rise?
- An Emmet match an Emperor in might?
- 1979, J.G. Ballard, The Unlimited Dream Company, chapter 9:
- I wanted to shrink myself to a mote of dust, plunge into this pool I held in my own cyclopean hands, soar down these runs of light to places where light itself was born from this colloquy of dust.
- Template:RQ:Authorized Version
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See also
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 (third-person singular simple present mote, no present participle, simple past and past participle must)
- (archaic) May or might. [from 9th c.]
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
- he […] kept aloofe for dread to be descryde, / Untill fit time and place he mote espy, / Where he mote worke him scath and villeny.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI.7:
- (obsolete) Must. [9th-17th c.]
- (archaic) Forming subjunctive expressions of wish: may. [from 9th c.]
- 1980, Erica Jong, Fanny:
- ‘I shall not take Vengeance into my own Hands. The Goddess will do what She will.’ ‘So mote it be,’ said the Grandmaster.
- 1980, Erica Jong, Fanny:
Usage notes
- Generally takes an infinitive without to.
Etymology 3
See moot (“a meeting”).
Noun
mote (plural motes)
- (obsolete) A meeting for discussion.
- a wardmote in the city of London
- (obsolete) A body of persons who meet for discussion, especially about the management of affairs.
- a folk mote
- (obsolete) A place of meeting for discussion.
Derived terms
Etymology 4
From remote, with allusion to the other sense of mote (“a speck of dust”).
Noun
mote (plural motes)
References
- ^ Worcester, Joseph Emerson (1910: Worcester's academic dictionary: a new etymological dictionary of the English language, p. 371
Anagrams
Inari Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *moδē.
Noun
mote
Inflection
Even e-stem, t-đ gradation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | mote | |||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | mođe | |||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | mote | mođeh | ||||||||||||||||||||
Accusative | mođe | muuđijd | ||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | mođe | muđij muuđij | ||||||||||||||||||||
Illative | motán | muuđijd | ||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | moođeest | muuđijn | ||||||||||||||||||||
Comitative | muuđijn | muđijguin | ||||||||||||||||||||
Abessive | mođettáá | muđijttáá | ||||||||||||||||||||
Essive | motteen | |||||||||||||||||||||
Partitive | motteed | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Further reading
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland
Italian
Noun
mote f pl
Anagrams
Japanese
Romanization
mote
Latin
Participle
(deprecated template usage) mōte
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Noun
mote m (definite singular moten, indefinite plural moter, definite plural motene)
Derived terms
References
- “mote” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
Noun
mote m (definite singular moten, indefinite plural motar, definite plural motane)
Derived terms
References
- “mote” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Portuguese
Noun
mote m (plural motes)
Spanish
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From French or Provençal mot (“saying”).
Noun
mote m (plural motes)
Related terms
Etymology 2
Noun
mote m (plural motes)
- (South America) hulled cereal, especially pearl barley and hominy
Derived terms
Volapük
Noun
mote
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