movens

Latin

Etymology

Present active participle of moveō (“move, disturb”)

Participle

movēns (genitive moventis); third-declension one-termination participle

1. moving
2. exciting, commencing

Declension

Third-declension participle.

	singular			plural
	masc./fem.	neuter		masc./fem.	neuter
nominative	movēns			moventēs	moventia
genitive	moventis			moventium
dative	moventī			moventibus
accusative	moventem	movēns		moventēs moventīs	moventia
ablative	movente moventī1			moventibus
vocative	movēns			moventēs	moventia

¹When used purely as an adjective.

References

• “movens”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “movens”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• movens in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • movable, personal property: res, quae moveri possunt; res moventes (Liv. 5. 25. 6)