Etymology

momentum

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Today it means: Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its masses and velocities. Full definition →

Latin mōmentum ← Proto-Italic *mowementom ← Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  3. Proto-Italic*moweō
  4. Proto-Italic*mowementom
  5. Latin*movimentum
  6. Latinmōmentum
  7. English todaymomentum

Borrowed from Latin mōmentum. Doublet of moment and movement.

Words from the same roots

Latinmōmentum all →

moment

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