moted

English

Etymology

From mote +‎ -ed.

Adjective

moted (not comparable)

1. Filled with motes, or fine floating dust.
   • 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Mariana”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza VII, page 14:

     [B]ut most she loath'd the hour / When the thick-moted sunbeam lay / Athwart the chambers, and the day / Was sloping toward his western bower.

Anagrams

• domet

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “moted”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Volapük

Noun

moted (nominative plural moteds)

1. birth
   • 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: I:

     Moted Yesusa: Kristus ejenon so: ven mot omik: ‚Maria’ ämatirajanof ko ‚Ioseph’, äplakoy, das büä ikobikons, pigrodükof fa Saludalanal.

     This is how Jesus Christ came to be born. His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph; but before they came to live together she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.

     (literally, “The birth of Jesus Christ happened thusly: [...]”)

Declension

declension of moted

	singular	plural
nominative	moted	moteds
genitive	moteda	motedas
dative	motede	motedes
accusative	motedi	motedis
vocative 1	o moted!	o moteds!
predicative 2	motedu	motedus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only