Etymology

vasomotive

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English motive ← Middle English motif ← Late Latin mōtīvum
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The story

  1. Proto-Italic*wāss
  2. Latinvās
  3. Englishvaso-
  4. Anglo-Normanmotif
  5. Middle Frenchmotif
  6. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)ewh₁-
  7. Proto-Indo-European*m(y)owh₁éyeti
  8. Proto-Italic*moweō
  9. Latinmoveō
  10. Latinmōtus
  11. Late Latinmōtīvum
  12. Middle Englishmotif
  13. Englishmotive
  14. English todayvasomotive

From vaso- + motive.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.