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Motion

2 stages from Latin to English.

Today it means the act or process of moving, or a formal proposal in a meeting
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Stage 1 of 2
motio
Latin · ancient
"a moving, a movement"
a moving, a movement, from movere (to move)
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Stage 2 of 2
motion
English · 1400s
"the act or process of moving"
settled as the English word for the act or process of moving
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