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motibus

motibus is a Latin form of motus, meaning “movement; disturbance”. It is the ablative plural masculine noun or dative plural masculine noun.

Found 104 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Republica 1.22: … sse finiri, atque in eo admirandum esse inventum Archimedi, quod excogitasset, quem ad modum in dissimillimis motibus inaequabiles et varios cursus servaret una conversio. Hanc sphaeram Gallus cum moveret, fiebat, ut soli luna …

Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 5.509: Motibus astrorum nunc quae sit causa canamus.

All forms of motus (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.