mote

See also motė, möte, and mõte

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mot, from Old English mot (“grain of sand”)

Pronunciation

Rhymes: -əʊt
Homophones: moat

Noun

mote (plural motes)

A small particle; a speck.
"Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye." -Matthew 7:5.
A tiny computer for remote sensing. Also known as smartdust.

Translations

A small particle; a speck

Arabic: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Czech: smítko (cs) n
Dutch: stofdeeltje (nl) n, vuiltje (nl) n
Finnish: hiukkanen (fi), hitunen (fi)
French: atome (fr) m
Georgian: მტვერი (ka) (mtveri)
German: Stäubchen (de) n

Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
Icelandic: ögn (is) f, rykögn (is) f, korn (is) n
Japanese: ほこり (ja) (hokori), ちり (ja) (chiri), 微粉 (ja) (びふん, bifun)
Polish: pyłek (pl) m
Russian: пылинка (ru) (pylínka) f, соринка (ru) (sorínka) f
Spanish: mota (es) f
Swedish: please add this translation if you can
Turkish: parçacık (tr), tanecik (tr), zerre (tr)

Etymology 2

From Middle English moten, from Old English mōtan (“to be allowed, be able to, have the opportunity to, be compelled to, may, must”), from Proto-Germanic *mōtaną (“to be able to, have to, be delegated”), from Proto-Indo-European *med- (“to acquire, possess, be in charge of”). Cognate with Dutch moeten (“to have to, must”), German müssen (“to have to, must”), Danish måtte (“might, may”), Ancient Greek μέδω (médō, “to prevail, dominate, rule over”). Related to empty.