Etymology

oculomotility

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Today it means: ocular motility Full definition →

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

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₃ekʷ-
  2. Latinoculus
  3. Englishoculo-
  4. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  5. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  6. Proto-Italic*moweō
  7. Latinmoveō
  8. Latinmōtus
  9. Englishmotile
  10. Englishmotility
  11. English todayoculomotility

From oculo- + motility.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.