motu

motu is a Latin form of motus, meaning “movement; disturbance”. It is the ablative singular masculine noun.

Found 390 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.25.2: Nam et navium figura et remorum motu et inusitato genere tormentorum permoti barbari constiterunt ac paulum modo pedem rettulerunt.

Phaedrus, Fabulae 1.2.15: Motu sonoque terruit pavidum genus.

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.