mot-, moto-, -motile, -motility, -motorial, -motoric, -motive, -motored; mov-

(Latin: move, motion)

iridomotor

Referring to, pertaining to, or causing movement of the iris of the eye.

locomotion

locomotive

locomotor

mob (mobile vulgus)

mobbish

mobbishly

mobile

mobile vulgus

Movable public; the unstable, fickle crowd.

The mob, the fickle or excited crowd; a phrase that recognizes the inconstancy of popular taste and the ease with which clever politicians can influence the great mass of voters. The English word "mob" is a contractioin of this phrase.

mobility

mobilization

mobilize

mobilophilist

A collector of motor cars.

mobocracy

1. The rule of the mob, government by a mob.
2. The “mob” or lowest class as a ruling body.
3. A ruling or politically supreme mob.

mobocrat

1. A person who advocates government by the mob.
2. A member of a mobocracy.

Related "move, motion" word units: cine-; kine-; mobil-; oscillo-; seismo-; vibro-.

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mot-, moto-, -motile, -motility, -motorial, -motoric, -motive, -motored; mov-

(Latin: move, motion)

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