See moton in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for moton meaning in English (2.4kB)
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "moton"
},
"expansion": "Middle English moton",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Old French",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nrf",
"2": "moton",
"3": "",
"4": "chin"
},
"expansion": "Norman moton (“chin”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "menton",
"3": "",
"4": "chin; mentonnière, chinguard (of a helmet)"
},
"expansion": "Old French menton (“chin; mentonnière, chinguard (of a helmet)”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "mouton",
"3": "",
"4": "sheepskin"
},
"expansion": "mouton (“sheepskin”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Middle English moton, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old French, compare Norman moton (“chin”), from Old French menton (“chin; mentonnière, chinguard (of a helmet)”); alternatively, compare mouton (“sheepskin”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "motons",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "moton (plural motons)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"parents": [
"Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Military",
"orig": "en:Military",
"parents": [
"Society",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1848, Herbert Haines, editor, A Manual for the Study of Monumental Brasses … in the Possession of the Oxford Architectural Society",
"text": "[…], the pauldrons covered the back of the shoulders, motons were worn over a gusset of mail at the right armpit, and the elbow-plates were of large size.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A small plate covering the armpit in armour of the 14th century and later."
],
"id": "en-moton-en-noun-2l45XAJc",
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"plate",
"plate"
],
[
"armpit",
"armpit"
],
[
"armour",
"armour"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(military, historical) A small plate covering the armpit in armour of the 14th century and later."
],
"tags": [
"historical"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
}
],
"word": "moton"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "moton"
},
"expansion": "Middle English moton",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Old French",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "nrf",
"2": "moton",
"3": "",
"4": "chin"
},
"expansion": "Norman moton (“chin”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "menton",
"3": "",
"4": "chin; mentonnière, chinguard (of a helmet)"
},
"expansion": "Old French menton (“chin; mentonnière, chinguard (of a helmet)”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "fro",
"2": "mouton",
"3": "",
"4": "sheepskin"
},
"expansion": "mouton (“sheepskin”)",
"name": "m"
}
],
"etymology_text": "Middle English moton, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old French, compare Norman moton (“chin”), from Old French menton (“chin; mentonnière, chinguard (of a helmet)”); alternatively, compare mouton (“sheepskin”).",
"forms": [
{
"form": "motons",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "moton (plural motons)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old French",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English terms with historical senses",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
"en:Military"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1848, Herbert Haines, editor, A Manual for the Study of Monumental Brasses … in the Possession of the Oxford Architectural Society",
"text": "[…], the pauldrons covered the back of the shoulders, motons were worn over a gusset of mail at the right armpit, and the elbow-plates were of large size.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A small plate covering the armpit in armour of the 14th century and later."
],
"links": [
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"plate",
"plate"
],
[
"armpit",
"armpit"
],
[
"armour",
"armour"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(military, historical) A small plate covering the armpit in armour of the 14th century and later."
],
"tags": [
"historical"
],
"topics": [
"government",
"military",
"politics",
"war"
]
}
],
"word": "moton"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (1d5a7d1 and 304864d). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.