moto

moto (plural motos)

1. One of a series of motocross or BMX races.
   • American Motorcyclist, Jan 1982:

     In fact, after the third of four motos, Hinkle had opened a comfortable lead toward the overall win, and perhaps he really didn't feel any pressure as he cruised home seventh in the final moto to lock up the crown.

2. (In only some varieties of English) A motorcycle or moped.
   • 2019, Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, pages 192–193:

     He stood in the evening on the street in the haze of rain-flecked light. The backfire of a fucked moto cracked like a gunshot, but he did not flinch from it.

moto (third-person singular simple present motos, present participle motoing, simple past and past participle motoed)

1. To use or ride a moto (“n.”) (vehicle)
2. Synonym of motor (“v.”) (ride a vehicle)

• moot, tomo-, toom

moto f (plural motos)

1. motorcycle (open-seated motor-powered vehicle with two wheels)

• motocicleta

Clipping of motocicleta.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [ˈmo.tu]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic, Valencia) [ˈmo.to]

moto f (plural motos)

1. bike (motorcycle)

• “moto” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmó.to/

móto class 3

1. fire

Irregular romanisation of 冇圖／冇图 (mou5 tou4, “no image”).

moto

1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, Internet slang) used in situations where no image is provided in a post or thread

• motto (more common)

moto n

1. motto

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoto/, [ˈmo̞t̪o̞]
• Rhymes: -oto
• Hyphenation^(key): mo‧to

Possibly from muoto.

moto (colloquial)

1. Synonym of face, especially as a place to hit in a fight

   Synonyms: turpa, kuono

• “moto”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish]‎^[2] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-01

Clipping of monitoimikone

moto (informal)

1. (forestry) Synonym of harvesteri (“harvester”).

Shortened form of motocyclette

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.to/
• IPA^(key): /mɔ.to/, /mo.to/

• Audio:

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• Rhymes: -o

moto f (plural motos)

1. bike, motorbike (motorcycle)

• “moto”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Clipping of motocicleta.

moto f (plural motos)

1. bike (motorcycle)

moto (plural moti)

1. motto, saying, maxim

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɔ.to/
• Rhymes: -ɔto
• Hyphenation: mò‧to

Shortened form of motocicletta.

moto f (invariable)

1. Clipping of motocicletta.; motorcycle

From Latin mōtus.

moto m (plural moti)

1. movement
2. motion
3. exercise
4. uprising, revolt

• con moto
• moto browniano

• -tomo, tomo, tomo-

moto

1. Rōmaji transcription of もと

moto

1. Nonstandard spelling of mata.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈmoː.toː/, [ˈmoːt̪oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈmo.to/, [ˈmɔːt̪o]

mōtō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of mōtus

mōtō (present infinitive mōtāre, perfect active mōtāvī, supine mōtātum); first conjugation

1. to set in motion
2. to keep moving

• “moto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “moto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• moto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

From Proto-Bantu *mʊ̀ntʊ̀.

moto class 1 (plural bato class 2)

1. person, man, human

• bomoto
• emoto

From Proto-Polynesian *moto (compare with Hawaiian moko, Tahitian moto, Tongan moto and momoto)^[1][2]

moto

1. to strike with the fist, to punch, to box

   Synonyms: meke, tuki

moto

1. hit or blow with the first, punch

   Synonym: meke

• momoto
• motomoto

• “moto” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

moto class 3

1. fire

Ultimately from English motor; see Yoruba mọ́tò, Igbo moto, Hausa mota.

• IPA^(key): /mò.to/

moto

1. car

   I see moto dem.

   I saw cars.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

moto m (plural motos)

1. (Guernsey, Jersey) car

• vaituthe

Clipping of motocicleta.

moto f (plural motos)

1. motorcycle

Borrowed from Latin mōtus.

moto m (plural motos)

1. movement, motion
2. agitation, circulation, rotation
3. shake

Alteration of mote;^[1][2] compare also Italian motto.

moto m (plural motos)

1. (art) artist's signature
2. (heraldry) motto

Borrowed from Ngungwel moto.

moto m (plural motos)

1. (Mozambique) fire; light

• IPA^(key): /ˈmoto/ [ˈmo.t̪o]
• Rhymes: -oto
• Syllabification: mo‧to

Clipping of motocicleta.

moto f (plural motos)

1. Clipping of motocicleta.; motorcycle

From mojón.

moto m (plural motos)

1. milestone

   Synonym: hito

• “moto”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28

 

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moto

Wikipedia ^sw

From -ota.

• Audio (Kenya):

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moto (m-mi class, plural mioto)

1. fire, flame
2. energy, charge
3. heat, temperature, warmth
4. exertion, glowing
5. zeal
6. bruise, welts, marks

• motoni (“hell”)

From Proto-Polynesian *moto (compare with Hawaiian moko, Maori moto)^[1]

moto

1. to strike with the fist, to punch, to box

moto

1. boxing
   1. traditional Tahitian combat boxing^[2]

• Yves Lemaître, Lexique du tahitien contemporain (Current Tahitian lexicon), 1995.
• “moto” in Dictionnaire en ligne Tahitien/Français (Online Tahitian–French Dictionary), by the Tahitian Academy.

moto

1. (anatomy) eye

From English motor.

moto

1. motor

Borrowed from Mandarin 摩托 (mótuō), from English motor.

• IPA^(key): [motʰo]

moto

1. motorcycle
   • 2014, Wutun villagers, “Mani session 1”, in Interactive Inner Asia Project‎^[3]:

     men she moto-ge yek-li-zhe.

     There is a motorcycle outside the door.

     (Transcriptions have been standardized per Wiktionary:About Wutunhua.)