moment

[…] el català, malgrat tot, viu un moment de glòria efímera durant els darrers anys del segle XVIII i primers del XIX.

Catalan, in spite of everything, had a moment of ephemeral glory in the last years of the 18th century and the first ones of the 19th.


moment

moment (nominative singular)
momenty (nominative plural)
momentu (genitive singular)
momentů (genitive plural)
momentu (dative singular)
momentům (dative plural)
moment (accusative singular)
momenty (accusative plural)
momente (singular vocative)
momenty (plural vocative)
momentě (locative singular)
momentu (locative singular)
momentech (locative plural)
momentem (instrumental singular)
momenty (instrumental plural)


moment

nl-noun

moment n (plural momenten, diminutive momentje n)

momenten (plural)
momentje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: moment

→ Indonesian: momen

From Middle Dutch moment, from Middle French moment, from Latin momentum.


moment

...over everything there lay a deposit of heavy white dust, which was only blown off one moment to thicken on another.

1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chapter 7, third paragraph

A particular point, or relatively small region.

Here, in the transept and choir, where the service was being held, one was conscious every moment of an increasing brightness; colours glowing vividly beneath the circular chandeliers, and the rows of small lights on the choristers' desks flashed and sparkled in front of the boys' faces, deep linen collars, and red neckbands.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

"You know, we all have our own lives to live. Now and then we get confused, we become weak and vulnerable. We have to look around for help. Sometimes we get lucky and there's someone who loves us to support us, to help us along. We have a right, being human, to those moments of weakness. We have a right to get confused and ask for help. … But when that help is offered and accepted, we don't have a right to remain confused forever, to keep those who help us standing by in a kind of limbo..."

1976, Richard Duprey, Duel on the Wind, part 4, chapter 1

Wait a moment, while I lock the front door.

Then came a maid with hand-bag and shawls, and after her a tall young lady. She stood for a moment holding her skirt above the grimy steps,[…], and the light of the reflector fell full upon her.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.

1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

Swearing doesn't just mean what we now understand by "dirty words". It is entwined, in social and linguistic history, with the other sort of swearing: vows and oaths. Consider for a moment the origins of almost any word we have for bad language – "profanity", "curses", "oaths" and "swearing" itself.

2013 June 14, Sam Leith, “Where the profound meets the profane”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 1, page 37:

In deep designs, in matter of great moment, / No less importing than our general good.

c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii], line 67:

However, upon a ſtrict Review, I blotted out ſeveral Paſſages of leſs Moment which were in my firſt Copy, for fear of being cenſured as tedious and trifling, whereof Travellers are often, perhaps not without Juſtice, accuſed.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Great Storm Described, the Long-Boat Sent to Fetch Water, the Author Goes with It to Discover the Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page [176]:

The document in question is of such immense importance that its publication might very easily – I might almost say probably – lead to European complications of the utmost moment.

1904, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Second Stain, Norton, published 2005, page 1192:

As to any suggestion that Stroudley's engines were not free-running at high speed, this was of little moment with 60 m.p.h. laid down as the limit at that time.

1941 May, “Notes and News: William Stroudley”, in Railway Magazine, page 234:

Britannia therefore has the advantage over only two classes, the rebuilt "Scots" and the "V2s", and in only two respects, maximum axle load (which is important) and weight of tender (which is of little moment).

1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 274:

(physics, mechanics) Ellipsis of moment of force.

(historical, unit) A definite period of time, specifically one-tenth of a point, or one-fortieth or one-fiftieth of an hour.

(neurology, informal) A petit mal episode; such a spell.

(mathematics) An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement.

If the points represent mass, then the zeroth moment is the total mass, the first moment divided by the total mass is the center of mass, and the second moment is the rotational inertia.

(mathematics) A quantitative measure of the shape of a set of points.

woman moment

Reddit moment

(Internet slang, frequently derogatory, usually preceded by a noun) An embarrassing event, supposed to be characteristic of some person, group, or situation.

frequently derogatory; usually preceded by a noun; frequently derogatory; usually preceded by a noun

en-noun

moment (countable and uncountable, plural moments)

From Middle English moment, from Old French moment, from Latin mōmentum. Doublet of momentum and movement.


moment

Ça fait un moment que je l’attends

→ Persian: ممان (momân)


moment

Det er mange moment som spelar inn her.

element, variable, contributing factor or circumstance

momentet (definite singular)
moment (indefinite plural)
momenta (definite plural)


moment

moment (specific point or period in time)

moment (short period of development or continuance of something) [with w (+ locative) ‘in what’]

moment bezwładności

moment gnący / moment zginający

moment pędu

moment siły

moment skręcający

(physics) moment (turning effect of a force applied to a rotational system at a distance from the axis of rotation)

(film, humorous, television) sex scene (segment in a movie in which characters have sex)

(obsolete, mathematics) moment (infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment or decrement)

momencik (diminutive)
moment (nominative singular)
momenty (nominative plural)
momentu (genitive singular)
momentów (genitive plural)
momentowi (dative singular)
momentom (dative plural)
moment (accusative singular)
momenty (accusative plural)
momentem (instrumental singular)
momentami (instrumental plural)
momencie (locative singular)
momentach (locative plural)
momencie (singular vocative)
momenty (plural vocative)

Learned borrowing from Latin mōmentum. First attested in 1592.

ref

Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “moment”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]


moment

(colloquial) wait a minute, wait a moment, wait a second (used when the speaker expects to refrain from speaking or acting for a short time)

→ Kashubian: mòment, mòmeńt

→ Silesian: mōmynt


moment

momente (plural)
moment (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
momentul (accusative definite nominative singular)
momente (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
momentele (accusative definite nominative plural)
moment (indefinite singular)
momentului (definite singular)
momente (indefinite singular)
momentelor (definite plural)
momentule (singular vocative)
momentelor (vocative)

Borrowed from French moment, from Latin momentum.


moment

Nästa moment blir att föra in stavarna i kärnreaktorn

The next step will be to insert the rods into the nuclear reactor

ett kritiskt moment

hinderbanans armgångsmoment

the monkey bars section of the obstacle course (the monkey bars step in the process of getting through the obstacle course)

an independent part of some (abstract) whole; an element, a factor

moment (indefinite nominative singular)
moments (genitive indefinite singular)
momentet (definite nominative singular)
momentets (definite genitive singular)
moment (indefinite nominative plural)
moments (genitive indefinite plural)
momenten (definite nominative plural)
momentens (definite genitive plural)