movens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of moveō (“move, disturb”)

Participle

movēns (genitive moventis); third-declension one-termination participle

  1. moving
  2. exciting, commencing

Declension

Third-declension participle.

singular plural
masc./fem. neuter masc./fem. neuter
nominative movēns moventēs moventia
genitive moventis moventium
dative moventī moventibus
accusative moventem movēns moventēs
moventīs 		moventia
ablative movente
moventī1 		moventibus
vocative movēns moventēs moventia

1When used purely as an adjective.

References

  • “movens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “movens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • movens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
    • movable, personal property: res, quae moveri possunt; res moventes (Liv. 5. 25. 6)
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