mota

mota (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of mootah

• Amto, Mato, atmo, atom, moat, toma

From Medieval Latin motta.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔta̝/

mota f (plural motas)

1. (dated) motte, rampart
   • 1395, Miguel González Garcés (ed.), Historia de La Coruña. Edad Media. A Coruña: Caixa Galicia, page 557:

     que o dicto martin bezerra e a sua moller façan tirar et derribar todos los penedos et pedras de mota que estan cabo da dicta casa sobre la terra os que poderen tirar con palancos de ferro et de madeyro et a maos de omes et que os tiren da mota et que os lançen contra o rrio et façan a mota chaa

     the aforementioned Martin Becerra and his wife should order the toppling of every boulder and every stone of the motte which is by the aforementioned house, with iron levers, and wood levers, and by the hands of men; they should be removed from the motte and thrown into the river, and they should flatten the motte

2. mound

• Mota

• “mota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006-2012.
• “mota” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006-2016.
• “mota” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006-2013.
• “mota” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

mōta

1. Romanization of 𐌼𐍉𐍄𐌰

Of Germanic origin, related to English mud.

mota f (plural mote)

1. mud

• fango

• motoso

• toma

mōta

1. nominative feminine singular of mōtus
2. nominative neuter plural of mōtus
3. accusative neuter plural of mōtus
4. vocative feminine singular of mōtus
5. vocative neuter plural of mōtus

mōtā

1. ablative feminine singular of mōtus

• mota in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)

mota class 1 (plural bato)

1. man

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.ta/

mota

1. third-person singular present of motać

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mota f (plural motas)

1. (chiefly Portugal) motorcycle

• moto (chiefly Brazil), motocicleta

Uncertain; possibly borrowed from Germanic, cognate to Italian mota, English mud, Dutch modder[1]. Or, possibly from Iberian.[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈmota/, [ˈmot̪a]

mota f (plural motas)

1. speck (tiny spot)
2. (uncountable, slang, Mexico) marijuana
3. fluff, pill

• (speck): ápice m, partícula f, migaja f
• (marijuana): bareta f, hierba f, macoña f, maría f, marimba f, pasto m

• motear
• motero
• motudo

Compare Italian monte

mota f (plural mote)

1. heap, pile

mota

1. genitive singular of mot