motiv

Possibly from French motif.

• IPA^(key): /motiv/

motív m (plural motíve, definite motívi, definite plural motívet)

1. cause/reason (that pushes/motivates you); motivation

   Synonyms: arsye, arësye, shkak

2. motive

   Synonym: moral

motív m (plural motíve, definite motívi, definite plural motívet)

1. (music) smallest rhythmic unit; melody
2. (literature) motif, art

   Synonyms: melodi, art, qilima

• [1] noun motiv/motív (I) "motivation, motive" • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)
• [2] noun motiv/motív (II) "motif" • Fjalor Shqip (Albanian Dictionary)

Derived from Latin moveo.

• IPA^(key): [ˈmotɪf]
• IPA^(key): [ˈmotiːf]

motiv m inan

1. motive (incentive to act)

   Synonym: pohnutka

2. motif

• “motiv”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “motiv”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “motiv”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

From French motif, from Medieval Latin motivum, from motivus.

• Rhymes: -iːv

motiv n (singular definite motivet, plural indefinite motiver)

1. motive
2. subject
3. motif

• “motiv” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Latin motivus, via French motif.

motiv n (definite singular motivet, indefinite plural motiv or motiver, definite plural motiva or motivene)

1. a motive
2. a motif
3. a subject (e.g. of a book, painting, photo)

• motivere (to motivate)

• “motiv” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Latin motivus, via French motif.

motiv n (definite singular motivet, indefinite plural motiv, definite plural motiva)

1. a motive
2. a motif
3. a subject (e.g. of a book, painting, photo)

• “motiv” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French motif, Italian motivo, German Motiv.

• IPA^(key): [moˈtiv]

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motiv n (plural motive)

1. motive
2. reason, ground

• rațiune, cauză

• Romanian vocabulary. In: Haspelmath, M. & Tadmor, U. (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

• IPA^(key): /mǒtiːʋ/
• Hyphenation: mo‧tiv

mòtīv m inan (Cyrillic spelling мо̀тӣв)

1. motive (incentive to act)
2. motif

• “motiv”, in Hrvatski jezični portal [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2025

From French motif, attested from 1622.^[1]

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motiv n

1. motive; that which incites to an action
2. motive; theme or subject; e.g. what a piece of art depicts