momentum

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English

Etymology

From Latin mōmentum. Doublet of moment and movement.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌmə(ʊ)ˈmɛntəm/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌmoʊˈmɛntəm/

Noun

momentum (countable and uncountable, plural momentums or momenta)

1. (physics) Of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its masses and velocities.
2. (physics) Strength or force gained by motion or movement.
3. The impetus, either of a body in motion, or of an idea or course of events; a moment.

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See also

• wind at one's back

Indonesian

Etymology

Internationalism, learned borrowing from Latin mōmentum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo.ˈmɛn.tʊm/
• Rhymes: -tʊm, -ʊm, -m
• Hyphenation: mo‧men‧tum

Noun

momentum (plural momentum-momentum, first-person possessive momentumku, second-person possessive momentummu, third-person possessive momentumnya)

1. momentum:
   1. (mechanics) of a body in motion: the tendency of a body to maintain its inertial motion; the product of its mass and velocity, or the vector sum of the products of its masses and velocities.

      Synonyms: impuls, pusa

   2. moment
   3. chance

      Synonyms: kans, kesempatan

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Further reading

• “momentum” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

Latin

Etymology

From *movimentum (compare later Medieval Latin movimentum), from Proto-Italic *mowementom. Equivalent to moveō (“move, set in motion; excite”) + -mentum (“suffix used to forming nouns from verbs”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /moːˈmen.tum/, [moːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /moˈmen.tum/, [moˈmɛn̪t̪um]

Noun

mōmentum n (genitive mōmentī); second declension

1. movement, motion, impulse; course
2. change, revolution, movement, disturbance
3. particle, part, point
4. (of time) brief space, moment (in time), short time

   Synonym: vestīgium

5. cause, circumstance
6. weight, influence, importance

   Synonyms: importantia, gravitās, pondus, opportūnitās

   mōmentum facere/habere ― to have importance, to exercise influence

   maximē mōmentī ― most important

7. (New Latin, physics) momentum, quantity of motion [from 18th c.]
8. (New Latin, physics, mechanics) moment (product of a distance and physical quantity) [from 15th c.]

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

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Descendants

References

• “momentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “momentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• momentum in Enrico Olivetti, editor (2003-2024), Dizionario Latino, Olivetti Media Communication
• momentum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934) “momentum”, in Dictionnaire illustré latin-français [Illustrated Latin-French Dictionary] (in French), Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[2], London: Macmillan and Co.