Etymology

micromotility

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Today it means: motility on a very small scale Full definition →

English motility ← Latin mōtus ← Proto-Italic *moweō
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*mey-der.?
  2. Ancient Greekμῑκρός (mīkrós)
  3. Ancient Greekμῑκρο- (mīkro-)
  4. Englishmicro-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  6. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  7. Proto-Italic*moweō
  8. Latinmoveō
  9. Latinmōtus
  10. Englishmotile
  11. Englishmotility
  12. English todaymicromotility

From micro- + motility.

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