motivo

Borrowed from Italian motivo.

motivo (plural motivos or motivi)

1. (music) A motif.
   • 1853, Adolf Bernhard Marx, The universal school of music, translated by A. H. Wehrhan (page 165)

     By the repetition, transposition, inversion, and combination of different motivos, the extended series of sounds is formed […]

• vomito

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /muˈti.vo/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /muˈti.bu/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /moˈti.vo/

motivo

1. first-person singular present indicative form of motivar

Common Romance, from Latin motivus.

• IPA^(key): /moˈtivo/
• Rhymes: -ivo

motivo (accusative singular motivon, plural motivoj, accusative plural motivojn)

1. reason, ground, motive

• motivi

Borrowed from English motive, French motif, German Motiv, Italian motivo, Russian моти́в (motív), Spanish motivo, all ultimately from Latin mōtivum, accusative singular of mōtivus.

• IPA^(key): /moˈtivo/

motivo (plural motivi)

1. motive (that which excites to action, determines choice)
2. (music) motif

• motivizar (“to state the motive or grounds of (an opinion, act); (fig.) to justify”)
• plendomotivo (“reason for complaint, grievance”)
• senmotiva (“gratuitous (without proof or motive)”)
  • senmotiva supozajo (“gratuitous supposition”)

From Late Latin motīvus.

motivo m (plural motivi)

1. reason, ground

   Synonym: ragione

2. motive

   Synonym: motivazione

3. (music) motif, melody, aria

   Synonym: melodia

4. pattern, motif
5. room
6. scope

• scopo
• spazio

• → Greek: μοτίβο (motívo)

motivo

1. first-person singular present active indicative of motivare

• vomito, vomitò

mōtīvō

1. dative masculine singular of mōtīvus
2. dative neuter singular of mōtīvus
3. ablative masculine singular of mōtīvus
4. ablative neuter singular of mōtīvus

From Medieval Latin motivus.

• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /mo.ˈt͡ʃi.vo/
• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.ˈti.vu/
• Hyphenation: mo‧ti‧vo

motivo m (plural motivos)

1. motive (that which incites to action)

   Synonyms: causa, finalidade, intuito, razão

2. (music) motif (short melodic passage that is repeated in several parts of a work)

   Synonym: leitmotiv

motivo

1. first-person singular (eu) present indicative of motivar

From Late Latin motīvus.

• IPA^(key): /moˈtibo/, [moˈt̪iβo]

motivo m (plural motivos)

1. reason, ground, motive

motivo

1. First-person singular (yo) present indicative form of motivar.