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American Heritage Dictionary: emotion
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2022
- PUBLISHER
- HarperCollins
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
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- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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Does emotion etymologically mean “energy in motion”?
No. That slogan is a modern folk segmentation. The documented route is French émotion through emouvoir / esmovoir to Latin ex- plus movēre, literally a movement-out or stirring family.
Etymology: French émotion from exmovere, ex- plus movereDocuments the actual historical morphology.
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emotion → émotion
Present-Day English → Middle French · borrowing
- SOUND
- English emotion borrows Middle French émotion with English stress and vowel adaptation.
- MEANING
- Movement, disturbance, and agitation develop toward strong feeling and later feeling generally.
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- Merriam-Webster · Etymonline editors
Word History: French émotionIndependently documents the borrowing chain.
emouvoir / esmovoir → ēmovēre
Old French → Latin · borrowing
- SOUND
- Old French emouvoir / esmovoir continues Latin ēmovēre with Romance sound and spelling development.
- MEANING
- Moving out or displacing extends to stirring and agitation.
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- Merriam-Webster · Etymonline editors
Etymology: Old French esmovoir from Latin exmovereIndependently documents the Latin source.
ēmovēre → movēre
Latin → Latin · prefixed derivation
- SOUND
- Latin ēmovēre combines ex- / ē- “out” with movēre “move”; this linear path follows the verbal base.
- MEANING
- Moving out, removing, or displacing develops an agitation sense.
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- Merriam-Webster · Etymonline editors
Etymology: Latin ex- plus movereIndependently identifies both components.
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commotion
English / Latin lineageparallel prefixed formation in the movement family
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Roman and Francophone transmission
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Word History: French, Old French, and Latin stages · broadNON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS
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