Noun: mot
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | mot |
| Plural m | mots |
Sample Sentences
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Le poète est bien plus un évocateur de sentiments et d'images qu'un arrangeur de rimes et de mots. (The poet is rather more an evoker of feelings and images than an arranger of rhymes and words.) [1903, Louise-Victorine Ackermann, Pensées d'une solitaire, page 43:]
Nouns inflected like mot
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle French mot, from Old French mot, from Late Latin muttum (“sound”), from muttīre (“mutter, make a mu-noise”), of onomatopoeic origin.
2. Has almost entirely replaced parole in Modern French, perhaps because of its brevity. Compare Catalan mot. See: Catalan Nouns '
mot'.
Verbs referencing "mot"
English Nouns
mot, Catalan Nouns
mot, Portuguese Nouns
mote, Spanish Nouns
mote.
Translations