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motoric en · ADJ

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *m(y)ewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Indo-European *m(y)owh₁éyeti Proto-Italic *moweō Latin moveō Proto-Indo-European *-tōr Proto-Italic *-tōr Latin -tor Latin mōtorder. Middle English motour English motor Proto-Indo-European *-ikos Proto-Italic *-ikos Latin -icuslbor. Old French -iquebor. Middle English -ik English -ic English motoric From motor + -ic.

Meanings

1. Relating to the motor faculties.
   • The 'movement' was simultaneously emotional and motoric, and essentially autonomous (thus distinguishing it from passive jerkings and other pathology). 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings:
2. (of a rhythm) Based on repetition of a single note length.
   • In between were the Bang on a Can All-Stars, a contemporary chamber-music group, playing the part of their repertory — drum-driven, motoric, yet by no means primitive — closest to rock. 2007 May 18, Jon Pareles, “A Tenderhearted Introvert, Crooning in Eclectic Company”, in New York Times:

Forms

Deriveds

motorically · premotoric · neuromotoric

Translations (4)

af motories (relating to motor faculties) · fi konemainen (in music) · nl motorisch (relating to motor faculties) · fi motorinen (relating to motor faculties)