motivo

Borrowed from Italian motivo. Doublet of motif and motive.

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

• IPA^(key): /moˈtibo/
• Syllabification: mo‧ti‧vo
• Rhymes: -ibo

Borrowed from Late Latin motīvus.

motivo m

1. reason, ground, motive

   no sé en qual ye motivo ― I don't know what is the reason for that

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

motivo

1. Verb conjugation of motivar

• Diccionario ortografico de l'aragonés (Seguntes la PO de l'EFA)

• IPA^(key): (Central) [muˈti.βu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [muˈti.vo]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [moˈti.vo]

motivo

1. first-person singular present indicative of motivar

Common Romance, from Latin motivus.

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• IPA^(key): /moˈtivo/
• Rhymes: -ivo
• Hyphenation: mo‧ti‧vo

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”)

• IPA^(key): /moˈti.vo/
• Rhymes: -ivo
• Hyphenation: mo‧tì‧vo

From Late Latin mōtīvus.

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

   Synonym: spazio

6. scope

   Synonyms: scopo, spazio

• → Greek: μοτίβο (motívo)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

motivo

1. first-person singular present indicative of motivare

• motivo in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
• motivo in Aldo Gabrielli, Grandi Dizionario Italiano (Hoepli)
• motivo in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
• motivo in Dizionario Italiano Olivetti, Olivetti Media Communication
• motivo in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore

• vomito, vomitò

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [moːˈtiː.woː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [moˈt̪iː.vo]

mōtīvō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of mōtīvus

• Hyphenation: mo‧ti‧vo

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin mōtīvus.

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

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

motivo

1. first-person singular present indicative of motivar

• “motivo”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “motivo”, in Dicionário inFormal (in Portuguese), 2006–2025
• “motivo” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “motivo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “motivo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “motivo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

• IPA^(key): /moˈtibo/ [moˈt̪i.β̞o]
• Rhymes: -ibo
• Syllabification: mo‧ti‧vo

Borrowed from Late Latin motīvus.

motivo m (plural motivos)

1. reason, ground, motive

   no sé por qué motivo ― I don't know for what reason

   • 2013 July 9, Alan Gainza Miranda, “Científicos de UCR encuentran arrecife de Samara y Carrillo en mal estado”, in La Voz de Guanacaste‎^[1]:

     Los motivos fundamentales por los que se ha degradado el arrecife en estos momentos son las mareas rojas y las extracciones de coral por parte de los humanos.

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

motivo

1. first-person singular present indicative of motivar

• “motivo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024