How to spell motion

hear itmo·tion/'moʊʃən/nounSilent and tricky

What it means: The act or process of moving.

In a sentence: The cat's tail moved in a gentle motion as it sat on the sunny windowsill.

The part people get wrong

Often misspelled as moton or motian.

Same family: move, movement, motionless, locomotion, motivate. If you can spell one, the shared part carries to the others.

Where it comes from: Motion comes from Latin 'motio', from the verb 'movere' meaning 'to move'. The same Latin root also gave us words like 'motor', 'motivate', and 'remote'.

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