different between mover vs movent

English

Etymology

From move +? -er.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -u?v?(r)

Noun

mover (plural movers)

1. Someone who or something that moves.
2. A dancer.
3. A person employed to help people move their possessions from one residence to another.
4. Someone who proposes a motion at a meeting.

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• vomer

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin mov?re, present active infinitive of move?.

Verb

mover

1. to move

Related terms

• movimientu

Galician

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mover, from Latin mov?re, present active infinitive of move?.

Verb

mover (first-person singular present movo, first-person singular preterite movín, past participle movido)

1. to move
2. first/third-person singular future subjunctive of mover
3. first/third-person singular personal infinitive of mover

Conjugation

Interlingua

Verb

mover

1. (transitive) to move

mover se

1. (reflexive) to move

Conjugation

Old French

Verb

mover

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of movoir

Old Occitan

Etymology

From Latin mov?re, present active infinitive of move?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mu?v??e/

Verb

mover

1. to move

Descendants

• Catalan: moure
• Occitan: mòver, mòure, mòguer

References

• von Wartburg, Walther (1928–2002) , “mov?re”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 63, page 463

Portuguese

Etymology

From Old Portuguese mover, from Latin mov?re, present active infinitive of move?, from Proto-Indo-European *mew- (“to move”).

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /mu.?ve?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /mo.?ve(?)/, [mö.?ve(?)]
  • (Paulista) IPA^(key): /mo.?ve(?)/
  • (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /mo.?ve(?)/

Verb

mover (first-person singular present indicative movo, past participle movido)

1. to move (change position)

   Synonyms: deslocar, mexer, movimentar

2. to induce; to persuade

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:induzir

3. (law, with contra following the object) to sue (file legal action)

   Synonym: processar

4. (chess and other games) to move (change the place of a piece)

   Synonyms: mexer, movimentar

5. first-person singular (eu) personal infinitive of mover
6. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) personal infinitive of mover
7. first-person singular (eu) future subjunctive of mover
8. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) future subjunctive of mover

Conjugation

Related terms

Spanish

Etymology

From Old Spanish mover, from Latin mov?re, present active infinitive of move?, from Proto-Indo-European *mew- (“to move”). Cognate with English move.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?be?/, [mo???e?]

Verb

mover (first-person singular present muevo, first-person singular preterite moví, past participle movido)

1. (transitive) to move (to cause to change place or posture)
2. (transitive) to shake (e.g. to shake one's head, to shake one's tail feather)
3. (transitive) to wiggle (e.g. one's ears, fingers, nose, toes)
4. (transitive) to wag (e.g., an animal's tail wagging)
5. (transitive) to move to, to cause to
6. (transitive) to swing (e.g. a sword, a bat, a tennis racket, one's tail)
7. (reflexive) to move (to change place or posture)
8. (reflexive) to shift

9. (reflexive) to move around, to get around, to drift (i.e. make one's way about a place, to navigate or travel)
10. (reflexive) to budge, to stir, to twitch, to fidget, to move (in an agitated manner)

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• “mover” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

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?