Femminile

motte

Senso

Concetti

(Inglese)

(feminine) motte (mound of earth)
(feminine) clod (lump of earth)
(feminine) block, lump (of food etc.)
(colloquial, feminine) pubic mound, mons veneris

Frequenza

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/mɔt/

Ereditato da francese antico

mote

In summary

Inherited from Old French mote (“mound”), from Medieval Latin mota (“a mound, hill”), of Germanic origin, perhaps via Frankish *mot, *motta (“mud, peat, bog, turf”), from Proto-Germanic *mutô, *mudraz, *muþraz (“dirt, filth, mud, swamp”).