different between covent vs movent

English

Etymology

From Middle English covent, from Old French covent (modern French couvent).

Noun

covent (plural covents)

1. (obsolete) Convent.

Derived terms

• Covent Garden

Old French

Etymology

From Latin conventus.

Noun

covent m (oblique plural covenz or coventz, nominative singular covenz or coventz, nominative plural covent)

1. convent (residence of nuns)

Descendants

• ? English: convent
• French: couvent

English

Adjective

movent

1. (obsolete) Moving; that moves; that is being moved.
   • 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, Dialogue 2:

     It was concluded even now, that to make a moveable to move; the movent vertue must be increased in proportion to the velocity wherewith it is to move.

Noun

movent (plural movents)

1. (archaic) Anything that is moved or that moves, or that gives motion; mover.
   • 1656 Thomas Hobbes, Elements of Philosophy 3.15.155:

     I define force to be the Impetus or Quickness of Motion multiplyed either into it self, or into the Magnitude of the Movent, by means wherof the said Movent works more or less upon the Body that resists it.

2. (law) Alternative form of movant.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “movent”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Catalan

Verb

movent

1. present participle of moure

Latin

Verb

movent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of move?