Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To compose mottos.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA personal slogan. · A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement. · A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim. · A paper packet containing a sweetmeat, cracker, etc., together with a scrap of paper bearing a motto.
Borrowed from Italian motto (“a word, a saying”), from Latin muttum (“a mutter, a grunt”), late 16th c. Doublet of mot.
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